Opinion

Richard Branson recently employed an ‘unlimited leave policy’. Risky, maybe, but it was a bold move and it worked.

The Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (TAU SA) requested Frans Cronje from the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) to draw up a policy brief on how to...

Who would have thought that the simple act of handling could be so detrimental to an animal’s health?

Numerous free Excel templates are available for farmers to download, says Greg Miles.

Soil plays a critical role in the survival of people, plants and animals, yet is vastly underappreciated by the world at large. Victor Roberts, specialist soil scientist at the KwaZulu-Natal...

The agendas of Afasa and Agri SA’s recent conferences, held a week apart at the same venue in Pretoria, had striking similarities.

This great app allows you to scan documents on the go with your phone, says Greg Miles.

Ryno du Toit, business development executive at Risk Benefit Solutions (RBS), an independent insurance and risk specialist, stresses the importance of mitigating risk in the agricultural sector.

There was a palpable buzz during the course of last year’s Agri SA congress, something that I felt was missing at this year’s event.

As apocalyptic as it sounds, a very successful underground farming initiative has seen the light of day (mind the pun) 33m under the busy streets of Clapham in London.

Agriculture should remain progressive and proactive if it is to ride out the storm, Kwanalu’s outgoing president, Mike Black, said at the union’s recent congress in Pietermaritzburg.

In the midst of the recent heat wave and prolonged drought, city folks were reminded of man’s dependence on water.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) is reviewing its 2011 Rural Safety Strategy in a series of stakeholder workshops held around the country. Brigadier Judith le Roux, section head of...

If the World Economic Forum (WEF) is to be believed, South Africans are unhealthy, poorly educated and uncooperative.

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Unlocking SA’s full agricultural production and processing potential is one of the ‘Big Five’ options to accelerate growth and job creation, according to a new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report.

Last month, I spent two days in Milan, Italy, with farmers and journalists from all over the world. The event was part of a New Holland social media initiative and...

CropX, PowPow and mOasis each offer ways to get the most out of your water, says Greg Miles.

Local farmers seek to create sustainable business ventures out of agro-commodities, goods and services with other role players in the value chain. They are not mere landowners, according to Christo...

Never before in the 21 years since South Africa’s transition to a democracy has the ruling party placed so much faith in the contribution that agriculture can make to the...