The unprecedented outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever in the South African pork industry have placed ...

Buyers, bidders, sellers, and guests from across South Africa attended the ninth annual Bona Bona Platinum Auction in March, ...

A farmer development project involving collaboration between universities, the department of agriculture and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is starting to prove successful for... Efforts ...

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The High Court in Pretoria has given the Minister of the Department of Agriculture a firm deadline to bring South Africa’s ...

Social media has opened myriad avenues for reaching consumers through targeted advertising campaigns. However, the algorithms are notoriously tricky, especially when trying to maximise exposure to ...

The ram was sold in a private transaction to the VEA Stud breeders of Bonnievale at the end of April. Speaking to Farmer’s Weekly, Abraham Burger described the ram as the embodiment of the best ...

Seed potato growers attending the recent biannual Potatoes South Africa Seed Potato Growers’ Forum in Cape Town were warned about the potentially devastating effect that resistant black dot disease ...

The Tuli is an iconic beef breed of Zimbabwe that will make any breeder proud, according to Kerry Stewart, Tuli stud breeder and chairperson of the Zimbabwe Tuli Breeders’ Society. Annelie Coleman ...

Mpumalanga-based granadilla breeder Darryn Stoltz has developed a delicious new passion fruit cultivar that offers several advantages over previous varieties. One of these is longer shelf life, ...

Macadamia nut farms have been in dire straits over the past two seasons as prices have dropped and input costs have risen. With little relief on the horizon, orchard management needs to be revised to ...

Leading Boran stud breeder Hurwitz Farming in Mpumalanga operates a number of enterprises, the latest of which is a silage contracting business. Pieter Dempsey interviewed Jarren Hurwitz to find out ...