No more cheap food
Food should not be cheap. It should be valued and appreciated because of the scarce resources used during the production process, and because of the effort and risk taken to...
The right kind of growth in agriculture
Last week, I wrote about the crucial role that the development of rural infrastructure plays in creating the type of living environment that would attract young people to a career...
Freshwater disaster
The scope and impact of the El Niño-fuelled drought, which is resulting in a food crisis across Southern Africa, has been well-documented by this publication and others.
New generation of farmers wanted
Every farmer can tell you where the best place is to get good mobile phone reception on his or her farm.
Time to declare a national disaster!
The good rains that came before Easter were just enough to cover some of South Africa’s parched areas in a thin veil of green, but the relief was fleeting.
Emerging from a problematic past
This issue celebrates Farmer’s Weekly’s 105th anniversary, as well as some of the agricultural family businesses that have helped to shape the farming sector in South Africa.
Explore agritourism opportunities
Agritourism is by no means a new concept, but it is perhaps a business opportunity that too few South African farmers have seriously considered.
History may repeat itself, again
As a result of the drought ravaging large parts of Southern Africa, South Africa’s national beef herd has been reduced by almost a third.
A future for farming in SA
Working for Farmer’s Weekly, I am often asked whether I think there is a future for farming in South Africa.
Counting the cost of a 1% tax hike
South Africans will soon hear how much more it will cost them to live in SA in 2016.
Farming’s value to society
American poet and farmer, Wendell Berry, writes: “Why should conservationists have a positive interest in farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: conservationists eat.”
The Bill is back!
The one word that fills many South African farmers with even more trepidation than the thought of payday on the farm echoed through the halls of Parliament again recently, when...
