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MODERN FARMING - LATEST ARTICLES
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SANDSTONE ESTATES
An Aerial photograph
of the main farm HQ on the farm Hoekfontein at Sandstone Estates. Click
on the image to the left for a larger version in a new window.
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ADDED 26th
September 2008
Update on our wheat planting.
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the report...
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ADDED 23rd
September 2008
Wheat
development : our soils require handling in a very special way
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the report...
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ADDED 18th August 2008
Our
wheat has germinated well
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the report...
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ADDED 1st August 2008
Month
end update Arable
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the report...
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ADDED 29th July
2008
Classic
Caterpillar D8 increases farm productivity
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the report...
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ADDED 29th July 2008
We
need to be eternally vigilant...
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read the report...
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ADDED 29th July 2008
Building
upgrade and maintenance
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read the report...
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ADDED 28th June 2008
Wheat
planting continues…
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read the report...
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ADDED 27th June 2008
Girls
senior school visits Sandstone Estates...
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read all about it...
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ADDED 16th June 2008
Ingenuity
counts - DIY seed mixer.
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read
the report...
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June 08
- Security issues - Click here to
read
the minutes...
(75kb PDF opens in a new window)
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ADDED 27th May 2008
SOYA HARVEST LUNCH
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read
the report...
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ADDED 19th May 2008
Why
in a time of global food shortages is our infrastructure allowed to deteriorate
like this...?
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read
the report...
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ADDED 12th May 2008
Cross
border violations.. the VOLKSBLAD reports...
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read
the report...
(English
translation)
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ADDED 12th May 2008
Eric
Maree of the Protein Research Institute visited Sandstone Estates recently...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 3rd May 2008
Preparations get underway for wheat planting...
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read
the report...
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UPDATED 3rd May 2008 with additional photos
| ADDED 27th April 2008
2008
Soya bean Harvest gets underway...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 25th April 2008
Bean
Drying Plant processes Soya crop...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 25th April 2008
Big
truck extravaganza...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 22nd April 2008
Haymaking
continues...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 22nd April 2008
Father
and son team, Roelf Snr & Roelf Jnr Jordaan, seen here releasing
Springbok into an area known as the old Game Camp at Sandstone Estates...
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the report...
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ADDED 22nd April 2008
Nature
at its most robust...
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the report...
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ADDED 22nd April 2008
Making
a contribution to Global crop production through arable expansion...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 7th April 2008
Who
says farming has to be disorganised?
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read
the report...
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UPDATED 11th April 2008 | 29th
Mar 08 | ADDED 10th
Mar 08
Our
two Case MX285's - Over
1800 Ha of wheat lands have now being prepared...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 7th April 2008
Temperatures
are dropping and the landscape takes on a distinctly autumnal look.
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read
the report...
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ADDED 7th April 2008
Our
fallow policy has paid dividends...
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read
the report...
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UPDATED 6th April 2008 | ADDED 18th
Mar 08
Conditions
remain ideal and the crop is maturing fast...
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read
the report...
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<awaiting pics>
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ADDED 3rd April 2008
Free
States
farmers eye court over
Lesotho
border situation. Its tough going on the Lesotho border crime wise.. Latest
incident .. Stolen Escom High Voltage cables. See the pictures...
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read the report...
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ADDED 2nd April 2008
Nature is both
magnificent and bountiful, not to mention being ingenious
beyond our comprehension. Look at this beautiful spider's web cleverly
constructed in the stubble in a fallow land.
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image in a new window...
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ADDED 29th March 2008
Planting
oats...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 18th March 2008
New
Hay Barns erected...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 14th March 2008
Suddenly
food production becomes important again!
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read
the report...
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ADDED 14th March 2008
One
of the ways that we monitor the health of the farm is through
the wildlife and in particular the birdlife...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 13th March 2008
Two
large Puff Adders, obviously enjoying a very close and cosy
relationship...
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the report...
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ADDED 7th March 2008
Preparation
of wheat lands...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 28th February 2008
Modern
Arable Farming...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 19th February 2008
Preparations
are underway for the Cosmos Festival...
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read
the report...
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ADDED 17th February 2008
Is this an original
painting or is a photograph taken at Sandstone Estates, Eastern Free State
? Either way it is what the farm looks like at this time of the year.
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image in a new window...
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ADDED 17th December 2007
Soya
Planting - December 07 update
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the article...
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