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Having grown up in the Limpopo bushveld, Nico Wagner has the blood of a stockman coursing through his veins. This young farmer has already had two of his bulls represent the Charolais breed in the Vleissentraal-ARC Special Performance Test Class. In 2008, one of his cows received the Farmer's Weekly-ARC Best Elite Cow award. Jasper Raats reports.
Issue date : 16 January 2009

For the third time, the Stirk family of Goodwoods Farm have won the Mangold Trophy for ecofriendly farming. Alongside a mixed crop system run in rotation, Justin Stirk now runs a successful Bonsmara stud and has found that donkeys effectively protect his smallstock from predators. Bob Ford reports.
Issue date: 16 January 2008

Part-time Beefmaster breeder Pieter van Deventer has received his first Farmer's Weekly-ARC Best Elite Beefmaster Cow award, but for the past four years, his herd has been an Absa-ARC Beef Cattle Improvement Herd of the Year provincial finalist. He's also on the Beefmaster Breeders' Society of SA council. Chris Nel reports.
Issue date : 19&25 December 2008

This breeding season many horse breeders have started considering embryo transfers. The technique is well known to cattle breeders. Initially met with suspicion and reservations about its high cost, it's become a relatively common procedure in SA in both dairy and beef breeding. You have an elderly Bonsmara with an excellent record that's getting too long in the tooth?
Issue date : 22 August 2008

The Boran may be a relative newcomer to SA, but it evolved in Africa, for African conditions. The prices Borans attain at auctions prove local farmers are catching on, with the bull TLM 05-26 Koning fetching a record price of R900 000 at an auction. Wayne Southwood reports.
Issue date : 04 July 2008

For 12 years since the 1994 elections, this billboard outside Aliwal North in the Eastern Cape stood bare.
June 2008

Despite the history of some of the carcasses at this year's Royal Show Carcass auction, prices fell far short of levels achieved last year.
Issue date: 13 June 2008

North West province cattleman Jacob Leburu Mphafudi rebounded after his first herd was wiped out by poison leaf, to become the 2007 Pick 'n Pay/Landbouweekblad Emerging Breeder of the Year. He now farms with 750 cows on two separate farms and holds a series of awards for conservation as well as his quality cattle, writes Peter Mashala.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Grain SA Developing Grain Producer of the Year, Lepati Macaphasa, has made the jump to commercial farming. He told Annelie Coleman a successful farmer must love his work and stay clear of debt.
Issue Date: 30 November 2007

Jaco van Niekerk of Luckhoff, a Grain SA commercial grain producer of the year finalist, pioneered no-till in sandy loam soils. Today, five years down the line, he's managed to boost yields and cut capital and operating costs dramatically, as Peter Hittersay reports.
Issue date 26 October 2007

South Africa will not turn into a second Zimbabwe if current legal precedent has anything to do with it. This was the assurance given by the Land Claims Court after Puntlyf emerged victorious from a long court battle. what has been described as a victory for all farmers, the court recently ruled that farms cannot be subject to expropriation when farmers evict unwelcome squatters.
Issue Date: 12 October 2007

Following the lead of Chris Roode of Lichtenburg (Farmer's Weekly, 20 July), Dirk and Frik van Sittert of North West adopted no-till five years ago. Now their yields are up by 0,5t/ha, soil erosion is almost nil and they have swapped four smaller tractors for one larger-kilowatt no-till machine, decreasing labour costs significantly and cutting diesel consumption by 40ℓ/ha. Peter Hittersay writes.
Issue date 7 September 2007