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UN helps Lesotho with food security
1,5 million Africans affected by floods

Issue Date: 12 October 2007

The draft policy on the sustainable management of veld and forage resources should be ready soon for further processing and endorsement by Cabinet, according to Victor Musetha of the Department of Agriculture's Directorate of Animal and Aqua Production Systems.
Issue Date: 12 October 2007

This year's Farmer's Weekly-ARC Best Elite Drakensberger Cow, FD 95 0021, was born and bred on F anie van Dyk's Brakenjan stud
Issue date 5 October 2007

This year's Farmer's Weekly-ARC Best Elite South Devon Cow, AC 93 09, has calved 11 times and is currently pregnant with her 12th.
Issue date 5 October 2007

Birds have always been nature's early-warning system and in recent years they've been issuing their caveats at an alarming rate. Habitat shifting is one response to climate change and habitat destruction.
Issue date: 28 September 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

Despite contrasting views on the sustainability of pastoralism in Africa in the 21st century, the truth remains that 125 million of Africa's poor depend on it for their livelihoods. Irin News reports on a recent conference where 15 African states discussed the formulation of a policy framework on pastoralism and the needs of those it represents.
Issue date 7 September 2007

Drought support for Australian farmers
Food miles
Sheep left to die of thirst
Issue date 31 August 2007

Motlatsi Musi runs a Small farming operation in Olifantsvlei near Soweto, on land granted to him and five nominal partners by the government's land reform programme
Issue date 24 August 2007

Roelof Bezuidenhout, regular Farmer's Weekly journalist and farmer in Steytlerville in the Eastern Cape, proposes that the success of land reform will depend on solving farmers' cash flow woes.
Issue date 24 August 2007

By saving wheat seed to avoid paying for certified seed, farmers are depriving research programmes of vital funding. But by relying on a shrinking pool of customers to subsidise its funding, certified seed is pricing itself out of the market. Glenneis Erasmus deconstructs this vicious cycle, and possible solutions.
Issue date 24 August 2007

An international bank says New Zealand is best placed to capitalise on the global dairy boom
Issue date 17 August 2007