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“I would like to know, if I’m starting a vegetable crop farm, how much crops advised for 6 hectares of land? Or how do farmers calculate such? As well, please do add in any information a new [...]

A query this morning was “I’d like to find out about training opportunities on sheep farming, in particular sheep feedlots”. After checking on the caller’s age and whereabouts, we asked for an [...]

There are some situations for which you could not plan. The possibility of them did not exist! At other times, the situation may well have been on your radar, but more as a worst-case-scenario.

Just like the cartoon, hero and sailor man Popeye saved his beloved Olive Oyl with a healthy dose of spinach, so too is the South African Breweries (SAB) providing economic salvation to a local [...]

When South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the nation on July 12 amid violence and destruction of property in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, he warned of several [...]

The South African wine industry is at a tipping point, with many wine businesses, especially smaller companies and those under black ownership, facing potential closures in the next three to [...]

The US-based World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has released a series of training videos to help Africa’s poultry farmers raise healthier birds and so enhance both their profitability and their [...]

IQ Logistica is the company behind the IQ Thentic SaaS products that are seeing easy-to-use innovation made easily available and accessible to South African Farmers in 2021.

In this first week of another lockdown, we thought we would take a look back at where we’ve come from with the coronavirus, and at what lies ahead.