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In a free market environment, planning is crucial. To make planning possible, official, reliable, accurate, credible, objective and timely crop forecasts are essential to keep the market working. This is where Rona Beukes, a senior statistician in Crop Estimates and Agricultural Statistics in the Directorate: Statistics and Economic Analysis at the Department of Agriculture, has carved a name for…
Grain SA has escalated its dispute with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) over soya bean location differentials, arguing that a return to a single reference point could impose substantially higher theoretical transport deductions on producers.
An independent Wageningen Bioveterinary Research study confirms Biogénesis Bagó’s BIOAFTOGEN® SAT1 vaccine provides up to 100% protection against the expanding SAT1 foot-and-mouth disease strain, offering vital defence for global livestock.
The award-winning Harrobi Brahman Stud has left a noticeable impact on beef cattle production in Namibia since 1954. The stud was founded on some of the first white Brahmans to be imported from the US in that year, Annelie Coleman reports.
A new computer centre in Eksteenskuil, a rural agricultural community in the lower Orange River valley of the Northern Cape, is set to give farmers, farmworkers, learners, and rural businesses better access to online services, agricultural information, and an opportunity to improve their digital skills.
A farm auction might sound like an old-fashioned world: a fast-talking auctioneer, an excited crowd, and a raised paddle indicating the highest bid. But modern farm auctions are highly structured, professional processes driven by transparency, market forces, and precise time management. Vleissentraal Properties explains through a Q&A.
What will it take to create a more inclusive and commercially sustainable agricultural sector in South Africa?
The remarkable story of Rico, the Merino sheep who got lost as a lamb and survived alone for seven years in the unforgiving Moordenaarskaroo, has taken a new turn with the launch of the Rico Bursary Fund, aimed at creating opportunities for deserving agricultural students.
Priya Seetal, sugar and health policy manager at the South African Sugar Association (SASA), spoke with Octavia Avesca Spandiel about the complex intersection between public health policy and the sustainability of South Africa’s sugar industry.
South Africa’s disease-free buffalo that test positive for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) antibodies will no longer face automatic destruction, following an intervention by Wildlife Ranching South Africa.
