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Boer Goats in the KZN Midlands
The Boer Goat was born and bred in an arid environment.Nobody has been brave enough to farm commercially with this breed in the warm and moist KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
The draft Land Tenure Security Bill explained
A senior legal adviser at Seesa, one of South Africa’s leading
labour law companies, with 19 offices countrywide and more than 3 000 farmers on its books
Breeding values - believe statistics, not stories
Breeding values are currently the best selection tool stud-cattle breeders have, but there’s still resistance and ignorance regarding their use, says Dr Johan Kluyts
New ideas will drive agriculture
Roelof Bezuidenhout looks at how farmers can keep up with evolving global technology, and how to apply it to farming operations.
An end to cattle lameness?
A team of researchers in the US is assessing lameness in cattle, and possible ways to treat it, writes Alan Harman.
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From paddy to plate - milling Tanzania's rice
A multi-national partnership of companies,
including a South African shareholder, bought a mothballed
and rundown rice mill in Tanzania and totally rebuilt it
New Holland celebrates 50 years of innovation
The history of self-propelled forage harvesters began in 1961, when New Holland transformed its famous tractor-drawn harvester into a self-contained unit
Next generation solar heating
With the unpredictable price of electricity, it is much safer and more cost-effective to install solar-powered geysers, writes Chris Nel.
Killer medicine
One of history’s greatest ecological disasters
followed the introduction
of a veterinary medicine.
Abré J Steyn reports.
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