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In this issue

The laws of traction: Put your tractor’s full power on the ground! A strategy to revive SA’s shrinking groundnut industry. Why aardvark numbers are dwindling in the Kalahari. UN Global Food Security Report: 3 billion people can’t afford a healthy meal. Farm Sales is back!

Healthy Food Is Becoming Increasingly Unaffordable

The latest edition of the ‘State of food security and nutrition in the world’ has found that the number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise since 2014. The report, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, estimates that almost 690 million people went hungry in 2019, an increase of almost 10% over the past five years. The high costs and low affordability of healthy and nutritious diets also continue to contribute to the malnutrition of billions of people.

Healthy Food Is Becoming Increasingly Unaffordable

5 mins

Wine Farmers To Fight Ban In Court

Government’s recent decision to reinstate the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages is expected to bring an already struggling wine industry to its knees, with some farmers feeling that not enough has been done by representative bodies to protect them. Jeandré van der Walt reports.

Wine Farmers To Fight Ban In Court

3 mins

Adapt To The Covid-19 World, Or Die

COVID-19 has not only cost lives and livelihoods; it has changed consumer behaviour and buying patterns. To protect their businesses, farmers need to adapt to new market realities.

Adapt To The Covid-19 World, Or Die

2 mins

Aardvarks Suffer In Extended Drought

It is not only livestock that are threatened during multi-year droughts; wildlife, too, can succumb to the stress. Dr Nora Weyer and other researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand have found that aardvarks’ feeding in the daytime during extended drought may be a sign that they are starving.

Aardvarks Suffer In Extended Drought

3 mins

How A Community Is Keeping Hope Alive

The drought of the past eight years has transformed the Sutherland district into an austere and desolated landscape, almost lunar-like in its bleakness. Despite the devastation, the community here has decided to do all it can to survive, and help others survive, until the rain comes again. Annelie Coleman reports.

How A Community Is Keeping Hope Alive

5 mins

Sweet thorn encroachment in the Eastern Cape

A number of woody encroacher species are expanding both their distribution and density in the Eastern Cape. Sweet thorn (Vachellia karroo), the most common of these, detrimentally affects the quality of grazing in the province, writes independent agricultural consultant Dr Louis du Pisani.

Sweet thorn encroachment in the Eastern Cape

6 mins

The Importance Of Maintaining Reproductive Health In A Herd

Fourth-generation farmer Gerhard Grobler says he has been able to achieve better results from his beef cattle herd after introducing crossbreeding. But, he adds, South Africa’s beef producers need to start managing animal health more proactively. Pieter Dempsey reports.

The Importance Of Maintaining Reproductive Health In A Herd

5 mins

Plans to revive SA's groundnut industry

Due to drought and a lack of new cultivars, the country’s groundnut industry is in a precarious position. North West producer Lourens de Kock and Adri Botha, chairperson of the South African Groundnut Forum, spoke to Annelie Coleman about what needs to be done to turn the tide.

Plans to revive SA's groundnut industry

5 mins

The many benefits of good tyre traction

Hennie Hattingh is responsible for original equipment sales at the Johannesburg branch of a major Southern African tyre and tube distributor. Stehan Cloete spoke to him about the effect of tyre pressure and tractor ballasting on fuel efficiency and productivity.

The many benefits of good tyre traction

3 mins

Beefmasters produce heavy weaners despite drought

Coenraad Viljoen, who ran the Josephus Beefmaster Stud on Sunny Slopes near East London, said that strict selection criteria had paid off in the long run.

Beefmasters produce heavy weaners despite drought

5 mins

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Farmer's Weekly Magazine Description:

PublisherCTP Limited t/a Farmer’s Weekly

CategoryBusiness

LanguageEnglish

FrequencyWeekly

Farmer’s Weekly is an agricultural magazine based in South Africa, targeting the whole of Southern Africa. The magazine is committed to advancing the interests of the region’s farmers and its agricultural industry by serving as a mouthpiece for the industry and by keeping its readers informed of the latest developments in the agricultural sector.

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