With rural crime on the rise and police resources stretched thin, farm watches across South Africa are stepping up to protect farming communities. These volunteer-led safety networks are preventing ...

Murphy said regulatory progress made in the past five years had allowed South Africa to catch up with other countries that had legalised cannabis production earlier. To date, the South African Health ...

The global spotlight was cast on South African ostrich farms when singer Lady Gaga performed at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games adorned in pink ostrich plumes and a black ostrich feather ...

Farmers’ Weekly spoke to various sources, who concluded these articles were misleading, factually incorrect and sensationalist. Anton Rabe, executive director of Hortgro, said the rules were nothing ...

Free State Agriculture (FSA), in collaboration with LGV’s PSiRA-registered Private Stock Theft Investigators, has retrieved more than a million rands’ worth of livestock since FSA announced its ...

On the plus side, the Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confidence Index rebounded by 6 points to reach 50 in the third quarter, after having remained below the 50-point mark for three consecutive quarters. This ...

De Jager said the Zimbabwean government’s offer to compensate the farmers in government bonds was unacceptable. According to a report by The Zimbabwe Mail, more than 1 300 former white commercial ...

Trends in macadamia nut farming margins are showing a downward spiral of lower yields, lower prices and higher input costs. But with good management, farmers should be able to weather the storm.

In addition to Eskom’s schedule of rolling blackouts across South Africa, which reached Stage 6 in early July, farmers in Limpopo, North West and Mpumalanga have also been hit by severe and ...

In a shocking revelation, the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has exposed severe negligence at a government-supported fish farm in Mpumalanga that ...

SA Stud Book recently hosted a discussion on the future of the red meat industry at Nampo Cape 2025, currently being held in Bredasdorp. According to Dr Philip Oosthuizen, the importance of trust, ...

Many farmers in the Northern Cape have been left in dire straits following wildfires that have devastated more than 300 000ha since August. Extensive damage has been caused to infrastructure, such as ...