Tag: Free State Agriculture

“Foot and mouth disease could’ve been prevented in Free State,” says FSA president Francois Wilken. This, after outbreaks of the deadly disease were confirmed on two Viljoenskroon farms.

Free State Agriculture's commercial manager says that MEC Thembeni Nxangisa's budget falls hopelessly short. He believes theft and biosecurity threats to especially communal herds are simply too great to fight ...

With events in eastern Europe highlighting the importance of self-sustainable food security, it might be time to rethink SA's Expropriation Bill, says Free State Agriculture, who believes it will make ...

This week on Farmer’s Inside Track is an exciting one. The podcast kicks off with a brand-new campaign with Meadow Feeds who farmers turn to for much more than just ...

Free State Agriculture has announced its three finalists in its Young Farmer of the Year competition. This year, a grain, pig and sheep farmer are vying for the coveted title.

As Mzansi prepared to listen to finance minister Enoch Godongwana's first budget speech, the vote was unanimous throughout the agricultural sector: the country needs infrastructure investment from its government.

If the government is serious about getting the economy going, they should delete certain provisions of the expropriation bill. This is the view of Free State Agriculture president Francois Wilken.

In dealing with the destruction caused by recent floods, let's avoid the mistakes made with previous disaster relief allocations, urges Dr Jack Armour of Free State Agriculture. Previous disaster relief ...

Producers in the Free State are facing disastrous downpours that quickly turned the season's promise of good summer rains into devastation. Farmers say if it doesn't slow down, the livelihoods ...

Almost ten years after its launch in 2012, government's controversial Vrede Dairy Integrated Farm Project in the Free State, better known as the Estina dairy project, will finally be handed ...