Agriculturel Diary

•Auctions
March 23: Virunga Trading cc (Riaan Liebenberg) auction (2 500 dorpers) at farm Virunga in the Leonardville district.

March 29: Total sale of the breeding stock (Sussex and Dorpers) of the late Oom Daan Kotze at farm Wolftoon number 399 in the Aranos district.March 30: Boergoat ram auction at Mariental with 49 rams and 10 ewes. April 4: Kalahari Game Breeders auction at Farm Kweekwal-West near Aroab.April 10: Ewert Benade total sale at farm Noib in the Mariental district. Dorper, Van Rooy and Nguni cattle. April 11: PW du Toit (farm Charakoe) auction of over 2 500 Van Rooy sheep.April 13: Production auction (Dorper) of Louis de Scande and Julia Burger at StamprietApril 26: Hoogvertoon Dorpers, White Dorpers, Van Rooys and Boergoat auction at farm Goreis near Koës by Oom Kola and Anet Steyn. May 4: Annual joint production auction of Dirk Louw, Willie Coetzee and Dawie Louw at farm Conradie in the Helmeringhausen district.May 16: Lared Brahman and Voigtland Simmentaler third combined production sale at Agra/Bank Windhoek Ring in Windhoek.* Farmers’ Association meetingsSteinhausen FA is holding a member meeting on March 14 at 15:00 at the FA hall at Steinhausen. Guest speakers are Mr Kamaauu Nandova of AgriBank and Mr Izak Smit of Lucks Oil and Energy. For further details contact Mayke Rumpf, Tel 062 561422, combumbi@iway.na Seeis FA is holding a meeting on March 14 at 15:00 at the association house at Farm Otjihaenena. For further details contact Mrs Elke Zimmer, Tel 062 560080, ziboauto@mweb.com.na Kalkfeld FA is holding a meeting on March 14 at 09:00 at Farm Klein Okarumue-Süd of Mr and Mrs I Jacobi. Guest speakers are Mr Derek Wright of the Agricultural Employers’ Association and Dr L de Waal, the Omaruru state veterinarian. Further details from Mrs Sylvia Friedensdorf, Tel 067 290009, HYPERLINK ‘mailto:kfriedensdorf@iway.na’kfriedensdorf@iway.na Westelike Khomas FA is holding a meeting on March 14 at 15:00 at the Harmonie hall. Further details from Mrs Greeff, Tel 064 551565, luanda@iway.na Windhoek FA is holding a farmers’ day on March 16 at 08:00 at Farm Paulinenhof of Peter and Christine Schaepe. To register and for any further enquiries contact Gudrun Middendorff, Tel 061 222140, 081 2403635, gudrunm@iway.na Otjiwarongo FA is holding its AGM on March 27 at 08:30 at the Hadassa guesthouse, Otjiwarongo. For further details contact Callie Steenkamp at 081 3326292, tilla@iway.na