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farming
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UN Warns That Some Of The Poorest Places On Earth Can No Longer Sustain Crops
06 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Still wondering why Mark Zuckerberg is building an underground farm in Hawaii, or Bill Gates owns 270000 acres of farmland in the US?
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Western Cape Farm To Drone-Drop “Predatory Wasps” On Vineyards [Video]
05 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Nature meets tech in this creative approach as SkyBugs and agritech company Aerobotics team up to release the wasps above the vineyards in batches of about 500 wasps per drop.
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Exposing “The Lie At The Heart Of Veganism”
26 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Galbraith’s article might not persuade vegans to try a tjoppie, but it should emphasise that you are allowed be comfortable with your place on the food chain and be a nature lover.
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Large-Scale Maize Theft Is On The Rise In The Free State
17 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The problem has become so severe that some farmers are forced to spend as much as R200,000 a month on security guards to patrol their fields.
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Botswana Shut Its Borders To Fresh Goods From SA – Does This Mean Cheaper Produce Locally?
08 Dec 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Botswana extended its ban on fresh goods from South Africa on Monday, defying the existing free trade agreements that are in place.
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Sheep Missing For Five Years Found Living With Kangaroo Pack
03 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
An Aussie sheep named Sugar who went missing five years ago was found living with a pack of Kangaroos. Now he’s back among the sheep and his dreadlocks have been chopped. Poor Sugar.
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Alarming Proposal For The First Ever Octopus Farm Receives Major Backlash
14 Jun 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
If ‘My Octopus Teacher’ moved you, then news of this company releasing the first proposal of its kind – to farm and slaughter millions of octopuses with rather cruel methods – will be upsetting.
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We All Have A Little Of This Sleepy Cow Trying To Avoid Getting Milked Within Us [Viral Video]
04 Apr 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
As the cold of winter rolls in, we can all empathise with the struggle of peeling away from warm slumber to enter yet another daily slog.
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“No Mohair. Keep Your F****** Promise”: People Are Raging At H&M
03 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
H&M is catching major heat after deciding to reintroduce mohair products in their latest fashion lines despite once promising that they would never use the fabric again.
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Very Sad News On The Guinness World Record Heaviest Potato Front
18 Mar 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Last year, a couple from New Zealand stumbled upon what appeared to be a record-breaking giant potato growing in their garden.
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Australia Is Under Siege From A Mouse Plague [Video]
25 May 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A plague of mice is the latest threat to homes and farms in rural New South Wales, and there’s very little that can be done to stop the numbers from growing.
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Could This Fruit-Picking Robot Help SA Farmers? [Video]
12 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Tevel Aerobotics Technologies has developed flying fruit-picking robots that provide autonomous on-demand harvest.
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Inside The Shipping Container Housing The “Farm Of The Future”
14 Jan 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
The challenges posed by climate change could make traditional farming methods difficult in the future, and that’s where The Cube comes in.
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SA Government On Why Our Land Expropriation Won’t End Like Zimbabwe
14 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
As the latest land expropriation bill is gazetted, the government says that fears around Zimbabwe-style land grabs are unfounded.
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“A Daily Game Of Russian Roulette” – Carte Blanche Tackles Dangers Faced By Free State Farmers [Video]
13 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The border between Lesotho and the eastern Free State is non-existent, and it’s created a situation that Carte Blanche likens to “a daily game of Russian Roulette”.
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Friday Morning Spice
26 Jun 2020 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
SA’s diesel shortage. US gov sent $1.4bn to dead people. Tinder helps homeless. Dixie Chicks change name. Monster Lufthansa bailout.
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They’re Giving Cows VR Headsets Now – Here’s Why
28 Nov 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A team of researchers are using VR goggle to transport cows to “cow paradise”, and the animals seem to be enjoying themselves.
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Clever: These Western Cape Farmers Might Be On To Something Big
23 Feb 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s a tough time to be a farmer in the Western Cape, one of your most valuable resources becoming an increasingly scarce commodity. Perhaps this is a wise idea?
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Keen To Escape The City Life? These Goats Could Be Exactly What You’re Looking For [Video]
04 May 2017 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
As an increasing amount of people are looking to escape the city, they are wondering just what it is they can do to break away from it all. Here’s one idea.
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The Fascinating History Of How The Angora Goat Ended Up In South Africa [Video]
12 Dec 2016 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa is full of wonderful little pieces of history.
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This Japanese Ad, Where A Woman Turned Into An Eel, Has Been Pulled [Video]
27 Sep 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
There’s nothing like portraying a young girl in a black swimsuit as an eel to boost your local farming economy, especially when she is being “fattened up” for slaughter.
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Enjoy This Farmer Spraying Manure At Emma Thompson Whilst She Demonstrates
12 May 2016 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Things didn’t go quite according to plan for Oscar winner Emma Thompson, a farmer taking exception to her baking efforts.
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Friday Morning Spice
15 Jan 2016 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
SA farmers owe banks R125 billion. ISIS behind Jakarta killings. Kruger Park ranger kills colleague. New anthem for England. Wing suit guy dies flying. Celine Dion’s husband dies. Power Ranger charged with murder. Backstreet Boy arrested.
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SA In Trouble As Droughts Loom To Add To Our Economic Crisis
04 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
South Africa is experiencing its worst drought since ’92 and, well, on top of everything else that seems to be spiralling out of control, we might be in a lil’ pile of shit.
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There Are Two Farm Attacks Every 3 Days In South Africa
03 Jul 2015 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s common knowledge that living on an isolated South African farm is fraught with danger, the latest statistics more than backing up that notion.
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Malema Tells White Farmers To Chill, Wants To Make French Wine Expensive
23 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Julius Malema used his opportunity to address white farmers in the Western Cape to impart some advice about their need to chillax. It went down better than you might think.
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Check Out This Hydroponic Dagga Setup They Found In Gauteng
28 Nov 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Police have recently spoilt the party for a family-run dagga operation in Gauteng. Find out what their set-up looked like, and where they cooked their unique batch of green…
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Farm Workers To Receive 50% Of Farms
23 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The latest policy proposal by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister would see commecial famers lose 50% of their land with no compensation…
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Save On Transport: NASA Is Growing Lettuce In Space
11 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA has a VEGGIE program, thats short for the Vegetable Production System programme, somehow. After successful attempts to grow zucchinis and other plants in zero gravity under artificial lights, NASA has announced plans to sustain space travellers on the International Space Station with produce grown on the station itself.
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