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Farm management: Human resources – communication and train...

  18th February 2019

In the second part of this series we discuss 2 critically important aspects: effective communication and training. When you work with people you enter a different world from machines or any other farming system. You can, to a large extent, control or manage machines, production, harvesting, packing and even marketing….

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Farm management: Human resources – how to handle your ...

  15th February 2019

All the technical knowledge in the world means nothing if you can’t work with your staff. Managing people is the most challenging area for any farm manager or owner. The mistake some smaller farmers make is to think human resource management (HRM) is only for big companies; in fact, it…

focus

Farm management: There’s nothing like focus

  14th February 2019

Farmers like to try new things – crops, cultivation methods, equipment – but it’s easy to get carried away… and to lose money. You can avoid both and make a success of your chosen type of farming by retaining focus. How many times have you heard somebody say how much…

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Farm management: Expand or diversify?

  7th February 2019

A common decision farmers must make is whether to expand their farming operations or diversify them. Here are some basic rules. A sustainable farming business should never stop changing, evolving, adapting and growing. The easy part is saying all that in one sentence. The difficult part is making it a…

organic

Vegetable production: How to go organic – the basics

  31st January 2019

Organic crop production is about using natural materials to improve soil fertility, mainly of humus and micro-organisms that break down the organic material so plants can use it. Humus (an end product of compost) and globulin (produced by micorisa fungi) are particularly important. Humus retains up to 80% of water;…

creamino

Philagro Animal Nutrition to distribute Creamino in South Af...

  29th January 2019

PROMOTION: Philagro Animal Nutrition, a division of Philagro South Africa, is ready to distribute Creamino, an advanced animal nutrition supplement that is taking the world’s livestock sector by storm. Developed and manufactured by AlzChem in Germany, Creamino is a feed additive formulated for pigs and poultry which is processed into…

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Farm management: Preparing for natural disasters

  22nd January 2019

You can’t avoid a natural disaster, but you can plan for it. Here are a few ideas for what to do to reduce your risks and minimise damage. Farmers can’t plan for every possible event that might take place. But this is no reason not to plan for worst-case scenarios….

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Crop production: Rotation to boost production

  21st January 2019

Here’s some useful advice on choosing crops for your rotation system, to ensure you get the most advantages. Crop rotation is a practice whereby different crops are planted in different seasons on the same piece of land. The aim is to enhance sustainable production and increase yield potential, compared to…