Farmer's Weekly / Farmer's Advocate

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	newspapers periodicals
Producer	Farming periodicals
Coverage	1907-1988
Works using it	6

Debates

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
De Klerk (1990)	Farmer's Weekly, Maize News and other periodicals (1986-1988)	1986-1988	Used for state aid figures, NAMPO estimates of maize farmer liquidation, board pricing announcements and drought outlook.
Keegan (1985)	The Farmer's Weekly, The Friend, The Farmer's Advocate (1908-1924), letters and reports	1908-1924	Used for farmer agitation, labour complaints, congresses (Boerenbond), land company prospectuses, and the 1924 deputation to Malan.
Keegan (1986)	The Farmer's Advocate (Bloemfontein) and Farmer's Weekly	1907-1918	Evidence on corporate farming (African Farms Ltd), large landed enterprises and the role of company capital on the Highveld.
Morrell (1988)	Farmer's Weekly, 1919-1927	1919-1927	Main source for farmers' complaints, recruiting licence counts, cooperative membership, and positions on mine maize imports.
Schirmer (1999)	Farmers Weekly (1936, 1939) and TAU Annual Congress records in CAD NTS 3/371 Vol. 9257	1936-1939	Shows farmers' complaints that prices were too low and that only rich farmers benefited from the Marketing Act.
Schirmer (2004)	Farmers Weekly (1930-1952 articles and letters)	1930-1952	Main source of farmers' own statements linking tractors and machinery to labour troubles, e.g. Luther Uys, the Rustenburg farmer, Saaiman, Dell.