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Farming guides for South African farms

Spray records and withholding periods, livestock record keeping, beekeeping, and the Acts behind them. Written from the farm out, with the regulation named so you can go and check it yourself rather than take our word for it.

Spray records · 8 min read

How to calculate a withholding period

Work out the earliest date a block can be harvested after spraying. The arithmetic, the overlap rule most growers get wrong, where the number legally comes from, and what a packhouse asks to see. Written for South African growers.

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