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The local wool market edged higher due to A SOFTER currency and the return of the Chinese to the market after their New Year celebrations. Prices for good-quality wool again achieved good prices as a result of the big offering of poorer-quality wool in Australia due to the prolonged drought, said Johan Louw of Cape Mohair and Wool.
Issue Date 16 March 2007

Free State Agriculture (FSA) has decided to postpone its application for various districts in the province to officially be declared drought-stricken areas, saying it would wait another 10 or 14 days in the hope of some good rainfall.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Is it beer? Is it milk? Hello, Bilk!
Huge drop in Oz crop forecast
British meat exports blast off
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

The wool market held up well despite a stronger rand, with Cape Wools' overall indicator closing a marginal 0,5% lower at R37,89/kg (clean), according to spokesperson Ona Viljoen in Port Elizabeth.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Flood is no joke, so pray for rain - but please don't ask for too much.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Although the first local ethanol plant has yet to be constructed, Ethanol Africa is already gearing up to compete with the major grain co-ops for maize, production credit and silo facilities. Major shifts in the market are clearly on the cards. Johan Steyn reports.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

Australian farmers are being offered a break from the country's crippling drought through free holidays in New Zealand.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

Biosciences executive director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Gatsha Mazithulela, said the Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) project will only appeal government's decision to reject its application to proceed with greenhouse experiments on transgenic sorghum once all the possible avenues have been exhausted.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

by Dr Koos Coetzee an agricultural economist at the MPO
Issue Date 16 February 2007

Research conducted in Hopefield, Western Cape, aim to show that with an understanding of protea nutrition farmers could improve their protea yields while supporting biodiversity. Issue date: 23 February 2007

In the third part of our habitat planning series, biologist and habitat designer Ben Breedlove exlains how to create optimal animal-human meeting points. Issue Date: 16 February 2007

Despite good pre-season rains in the western grain-producing regions of South Africa, a dry mid-season accompanied by very high temperatures and high winds are placing crops under stress.