Commercial Farmers Union deliver a stark warning to South Africa

SA’s bees are dying, but Portia Morudi has a plan to save them.

We wouldn’t hold our breath.

South African government is worried that these little critters have invaded fields in certain parts of the country.

Talk about state of the art agriculture!

The current drought in South Africa is the worst that has been experienced for decades. 2015 and 2016 have been the driest years on records that date back to 1904, but hope is on the horizon.

There was little holding five Zimbabwean friends back. When initiative and hard work collided, they turned empty land into a thriving, profitable farm, and grew their way to success.

Western Cape farmers have donated over 100 tonnes of animal feed for their drought-stricken compatriots in Kliprand.

Ok so you may or may not have heard that KZN and the Free State are drought-stricken; what’s worrying is that farmers, like Hlaleleni, aren’t receiving the help they need to keep their heads above… water

Farm workers living and working on farms previously owned by white farmers are being subjected to the most inhumane labour conditions since land reform started.

Gabrielle Evans from Marmalade Jam Landscapes has created a garden for Africa Vision Malawi for this year’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show that will take your breathe away. A truly educational piece of work and the story behind it is something every small garden can use and utilise to get the best out of your garden, no matter how small a space it is.

The Department of Labour is investigating allegations of child labour on a grape and mushroom farm in the Hex Valley, outside De Doorns.

A Robertson farm worker has laid a charge of assault against his employer after allegedly being “slapped and choked” on Wednesday morning. The attack, he said, was punishment for inviting a farm workers’ union leader onto the property. A case of assault is being investigated by the police.

Try as you might, racial connotations to a handful of words in South Africa just won’t let up; but what if we unpack them or approach them differently… could we make any progress in the fight against the ‘racialisation’ of language?

You probably wouldn’t sprinkle antibiotics like sugar all over your breakfast cereal every morning, even if you were sick. There is, though, a good chance that you are in effect doing something similar today on Heritage Day. The steaks you are braaing, or the chicken being grilled is likely to contain traces of antibiotics.

Land ownership in South Africa remains heavily skewed across racial lines twenty years after the end of apartheid. But is 80% of the country really in the hands of only 40,000 white families?

The Coega Development Corporation (CDC) has announced plans to develop a R2-billion aqua-farming facility on 300 hectares of land at the Coega industrial development zone outside Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape

In (ultra) layman’s terms, a tractor pulls a giant trailer of poo, which is then pushed through a couple of tubes, onto a thing that rotates, which then flings the poo in all directions, and hopefully onto the ground

Dankfees returns to Hop Farm from 31 May to 2 June and we have fabulous prizes for you! You could win one of 2 ticket packages for 2 adults (each package worth £50)…