Michris Janse van Rensburg, a farmer, inventor and founder of Backsaver Equipment based in the Bulfontein area of the Free...
Read moreDetailsThe Backsaver walking stick grass planter has been recognised as a runner-up in the commercial category of this year’s Farmers’...
Read moreDetailsDue to the soaked soil, the brothers could not access the soybean lands with a combine harvester and had to...
Read moreDetailsA farmer from the Southern Free State, Kobus Breytenbach, uses the wheel of an old LM corn planter built into...
Read moreDetailsCleaning canola seed – removing husks, stalks and other debris – can be a slow, labour-intensive task. That’s why farmer...
Read moreDetailsLivestock farmer Hugh Ainslie has found an effective way to make full use of creep feeding in his Boer goat...
Read moreDetailsBecause most farm budgeting systems on the market did not meet Franco le Roux's requirements, he developed a model he...
Read moreDetailsWhich farmer hasn’t struggled to loosen an old oil filter in an engine – whether in a car, bakkie, truck,...
Read moreDetailsSouth Africa’s farming community has lost an award-winning innovator after Pieter Louwrens from the Reitz district died in a car...
Read moreDetailsOn a scorching hot day in a stiflingly warm hall, Petrus Claasen van Eeden, a farmer from Harrismith, had the...
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