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Invasive trees halve broiler heating costs

Temperature control is an essential part of successful broiler production, especially during the first two weeks of a chick’s life. Many producers in South...

5 ways poultry producers can combat E. coli

1. Understand the disease Commonly found in the gut of warm-blooded animals, E. coli comprises rod-shaped bacteria and can be both a primary and...

AgriCAD – Increasing productivity

ohn and James Jackson, the father-and-son team of Jackson Farming in KwaZulu-Natal’s Bergville district, say the key to productivity lies in keeping machines operating...

Proudly South African

Nampo Harvest Day once again highlighted a number of South African companies that can compete with the best in the world: Turner TL-170-C harvester: Turnerland Manufacturing...

Strautmann mixer wins award

Organised by the German Agricultural Society, the EuroTier Expo in Hanover is one of the largest international platforms for innovations in machinery and equipment...

New from Horsch

Francois and Sarel Haasbroek recently hosted a farmers’ day at Bothaville in the Free State, where the latest machinery from Horsch was demonstrated by...

Lettuce: Meet the salad kings of SA

Not knowing what to do after finishing his military service back in the 1970s, Michael Kaplan set off to work on a kibbutz in...

Irrigated wheat: Conservation farming improves water usage and yield

Egon Zunckel and his sons, Tyson and Carl, have been implementing conservation agriculture practices, especially no-till, on their farm’s commercial mixed grains operation since...

New irrigation systems: making do with less

Irrigation supports 25% to 30% of national agricultural production in South Africa. Although irrigated agriculture uses 62% of the available water resources in South...

Family farm harvests 50t of carrots a day all year round

Johannes Griesel has been producing carrots on the farm Wilson’s Fort in the Bainsvlei area of Bloemfontein for the past 25 years. He started...

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