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Wheat estimate revised down AgriOrbit

Wheat estimate revised down AgriOrbit

The crop estimates Committee has just released the fourth area estimate and fourth production forecast for the 2017 production season of winter cereal crops.  The commercial production has been revised down. The fifth production forecast for winter cereals for...

Reën tot in Desember in Kaap moontlik Landbou - Alani Janeke

Reën tot in Desember in Kaap moontlik Landbou - Alani Janeke

Daar is 'n moontlikheid dat nog reën in dele van die Wes-, Oos- en Noord-Kaap kan voorkom, terwyl 'n gunstige reëntyd in die somerreëngebied steed verwag word, sê mnr. Johan van den Berg, klimatoloog van Santam Landbou. Reën het die afgelope weke oor dele van die...

SA fuel prices set to increase further in December AgriOrbit

SA fuel prices set to increase further in December AgriOrbit

South African fuel prices could increase further on 6 December 2017. While it is relatively early to be certain about the scale of the increase, the current estimates suggest that prices of petrol and diesel might increase by 5% and 3%.  This is mainly driven by...

Dan Kriek se visie vir Agri SA AGRI SA

Dan Kriek se visie vir Agri SA AGRI SA

Dan Kriek, die nuutverkose voorsitter van AgriSA, neem die leisels oor van ‘n organisasie wat reeds geruime tyd besig is om sy mandaat te heroorweeg. Hy praat met Nico van Burick oor sy voornemens. Op die onlangse jaarlikse kongres het dit gelyk of daar ‘n groot mate...

Agri SA Media Release: Concern About Bill AGRI SA

Agri SA Media Release: Concern About Bill AGRI SA

Medium-Term Budget: Agri SA concerned about regulation of agricultural land holdings bill Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) used several agricultural related metaphors, such as sowing and reaping. This highlights an emphasis...

2017 Agri SA Young farmer of the year

2017 Agri SA Young farmer of the year

Congratulations to Jaco Strauss who was named the 2017 Agri SA Young Farmer of the year! We are very proud of you and wish you great success and prosperity. Jaco's contributions are invaluable and we look forward to his future contributions and innovative developments...

Afslaers ding mee by #AELivestock AgriOrbit

Afslaers ding mee by #AELivestock AgriOrbit

Die Toyota SA Nasionale Jong Afslaerskompetisie sal in 2018 vir die vyfde agtereenvolgende jaar gehou word. Die kompetisie het ten doel om die lewendehawe-afslaersberoep te bevorder en is in 2014 vir die eerste keer deur die...

Transforming the agricultural sector Money Web - Dr Klaus Eckstein

Transforming the agricultural sector Money Web - Dr Klaus Eckstein

The potential of smallholder farmers needs to be unlocked. The South African government believes that the key to food security lies in investing in smallholder agriculture and has committed to pumping R5.5 billion of the national budget to support 435 000 subsistence...

No South African should ever have to go hungry IOL - Tebogo Mashabela

No South African should ever have to go hungry IOL - Tebogo Mashabela

Estimates on the number of South Africans going hungry every day run into the millions according to various sources, including Statistics SA (Stats SA), researchers and organisations working to fight hunger. This is despite producing enough staple foods as well as...

Expert tips on producing better silage Farmer's Weekly - Lloyd Phillips

Expert tips on producing better silage Farmer's Weekly - Lloyd Phillips

Maize silage is maize grain attached to a digestible grass, and is a nutritive energy source. Both components – maize and grass – are important to silage quality. “Maize grain provides about 65% of the energy found in maize silage. It’s therefore beneficial to achieve...

Eskom increase unaffordable – AgriSA Money Web - Antoinette Slabbert

Eskom increase unaffordable – AgriSA Money Web - Antoinette Slabbert

Electricity cost is a growing portion of agricultural input costs and a further 19.9% Eskom tariff increase could drive marginal farmers off their land, says Dr Requier Wait, head of trade and commerce at AgriSA. Wait responded to the application Eskom submitted to...

Hide Prices

Hide Prices

Due to the hide markets need to have timeous prices before the publication of the Agri Trends, the team will send out the weekly hide prices individually. The average hide price over the past week was 1.7% lower at R12.50/kg green. The hide market is currently under...

The importance of data in agriculture Farmer's Weekly - Denene Erasmus

The importance of data in agriculture Farmer's Weekly - Denene Erasmus

In May this year, The Economist ran a cover story that said that the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. Data is to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change, the article said. Given the overwhelming importance of...

AgriSA teams up with police to fight crime SANews

AgriSA teams up with police to fight crime SANews

The Ministry of Police and AgriSA will work together to develop a plan of action to create safety in farming communities. “We must attend to farm killings as well as attacks… but equally, we must prevent any form of disruption with regard to production that takes...

Hide Prices

Hide Prices

Due to the hide markets need to have timeous prices before the publication of the Agri Trends, the team will send out the weekly hide prices individually. The average hide price over the past week was 2.5% lower at R12.64/kg green. The hide market is currently under...

GSI sit wip in springmieliemaatskappy se sukses ProAgri - Benine Cronje

GSI sit wip in springmieliemaatskappy se sukses ProAgri - Benine Cronje

Oral waar jy vandag in die Karoo rondry, sien jy silo’s verrys waar vroeër jare niks was nie. En die naam wat trots op die meeste silo’s pryk, is GSI – die grootste vervaardiger van graanbergingstoerusing in die wêreld. Ry jy by Biggi Brands, vervaardiger en...

Noord-Kaap se boere word gehelp in droogtetyd ProAgri - Benine Cronje

Noord-Kaap se boere word gehelp in droogtetyd ProAgri - Benine Cronje

26 vragmotors vol voer word more (Vrydag 15 September) na boere in Vredendal in die Noord-Kaap gestuur om hulle in die droogtetyd te help. Die vragmotors is gereël deur Caring Daisies, ‘n hulporganisasie. Caring Daisies, net soos die Boere in Nood-groep en...

Agri Noord-Kaap bekyk volhoubare landbou Agri Orbit

Agri Noord-Kaap bekyk volhoubare landbou Agri Orbit

Agri Noord-Kaap (Agri NK) het op 23 Augustus hul jaarlikse kongres in Kimberley aangebied en boere van oor die hele Noord-Kaap het die geleentheid bygewoon. Omdat almal bekommerd is oor die politieke situasie in die land, het die bestuur van Agri NK besluit om hierdie...

A woman’s place in agriculture Biz Community

A woman’s place in agriculture Biz Community

Agriculture is traditionally regarded as a male profession, but those in the industry know that women are playing an influential role in developing the growth of agriculture in Africa. Magda du Toit, the corporate engagement and communication manager for Monsanto SA...

Melanie Theron (ORLU Amptenaar) – 15 Jaar Diens

Melanie Theron (ORLU Amptenaar) – 15 Jaar Diens

Oranjerivier Landbou-unie was bevoorreg om op 3 Julie 2017 saam met Melanie Theron, Kantoor Administrateur, 15 jaar van getroue en lojale diens te vier. Melanie het diens aanvaar op 01 Julie 2002 by ORLU en volgens haar was sy nog nooit spyt nie. As Bestuurder by ORLU...

El Niño no longer predicted for SA Farmer's Weekly - Annelie Coleman

El Niño no longer predicted for SA Farmer's Weekly - Annelie Coleman

According to Cobus Olivier, prediction scientist at the South Africa Weather Service, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon was expected to remain in a neutral phase during South Africa’s summer period. This meant that neither La Niña nor El Niño events...

Angus bull sold for a record R140 000 Farmer's Weekly - Siyanda Sishuba

Angus bull sold for a record R140 000 Farmer's Weekly - Siyanda Sishuba

Mequatling Smokin’ Jo (WB 15 306), a Black Angus bull, was sold for R140 000, a new SA record for the breed, at the recent Mequatling Red and Black Angus 50th production auction in Clocolan in the Free State. The previous record – R130 000 – was set by Mequatling...

Department gears up to reward women News 24 - Boipelo Mere

Department gears up to reward women News 24 - Boipelo Mere

The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is all set and ready for the annual Female Entrepreneur Awards 2017 that will be held in Kimberley in August. This year, 87 female entrepreneur projects went through the adjudication...

Africa: Land of milk and beef? Bizcommunity - Wyatt Bechtel

Africa: Land of milk and beef? Bizcommunity - Wyatt Bechtel

Investing in Africa's beef and dairy industries could be a boom for global agriculture, but it does come with some baggage, according to AgWeb. During Alltech’s 30th Annual International Symposium in Lexington, Ky., a presentation was given about the potential of...

Northern Cape province, South Africa Brand South Africa

Northern Cape province, South Africa Brand South Africa

The vast and arid Northern Cape is South Africa’s largest province – around the size of Germany – and takes up nearly a third of the country’s land area. Yet it has the smallest population, only 1-million people, and a population density of just three people for every...

Risk protection for SA sheep farmers Joseph Booysen

Risk protection for SA sheep farmers Joseph Booysen

South African sheep farmers are set to reap benefits of risk protection against prices volatility after the JSE last week launched the lamb carcass futures contract on its Commodity Derivatives Market. The JSE said the move would allow farmers and abattoirs to protect...

Farm inspections underway in NC OFM News - Katleho Morapela

Farm inspections underway in NC OFM News - Katleho Morapela

The Northern Cape Department of Labour says it will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that employers who do not comply with the basic conditions of the Employment Act are brought to book.   The department’s spokesperson, Kebalepile Khula, says it has come to...

When towns run dry News 24 - Yolandi Groenewald

When towns run dry News 24 - Yolandi Groenewald

In Calvinia people had forgotten what rain smells like. The biggest town in the Hantam-Karoo district of the Northern Cape is slowly dying of thirst. Its main water source, the Karee Dam, dried up at the end of last year and the few boreholes left are in dire straits,...

Who owns the land? Politics Web - Theuns Eloff

Who owns the land? Politics Web - Theuns Eloff

LAND - WHERE DOES THE HUNGER LIE? Land reform, especially of agricultural land, is nowadays almost a shibboleth for South African politics. The reasoning of the associated rhetoric usually has the following elements: - “Soil is prosperity, and if you first...

Fracking to give Karoo ‘uncertain future’ IOL - Norma Wildenboer

Fracking to give Karoo ‘uncertain future’ IOL - Norma Wildenboer

The Endangered Wildlife Trust has warned that the Karoo and large parts of the Northern Cape face an “uncertain future” after government approved prospecting rights for hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Minister of Minerals and Energy, Mosebenzi Zwane, recently...

Maximising the potential of wastewater in agriculture Bizcommunity

Maximising the potential of wastewater in agriculture Bizcommunity

During World Water Day (22 March), FAO highlighted the opportunity that treated wastewater represents for agriculture, improved food security, and nutrition. Treated and reused wastewater can be a cost-effective and sustainable solution to water scarcity. "We need to...

Human myaisis outbreak in the Northern Cape SABC News

Human myaisis outbreak in the Northern Cape SABC News

There's been an outbreak of human Myaisis or flying maggots in the Northern Cape. Twelve people from Upington and Kuruman have been treated since the beginning of March. Myaisis is a climatic disease; experts say the recent heavy rains in the province could have...

Rural safety enjoys high-level attention Politics Web

Rural safety enjoys high-level attention Politics Web

Agri SA’s Rural Safety Committee yesterday met with a high-level police delegation and other representatives of the country’s security forces for in-depth discussions and planning regarding various rural safety aspects that threaten the security of the farming...

Zambia provides opportunity for SA agri investment ENCA

Zambia provides opportunity for SA agri investment ENCA

South African companies and farmers looking to branch out beyond the republic’s borders should consider the potential offered by Zambia as the Agritech Expo Zambia takes place in Chisamba from April 27-29. “Zambia is an exciting market to explore, not just for South...

We will defend Operation Phakisa against politics Agri SA

We will defend Operation Phakisa against politics Agri SA

Agri SA is committed to the Operation Phakisa process but will not allow it to be hijacked for sectarian and narrow political agendas by President Jacob Zuma or any other politician, the agricultural union said on Saturday. President Jacob Zuma had contradicted the...

SKA, Agri SA in Karoo partnership ITWeb - Admire Moyo

SKA, Agri SA in Karoo partnership ITWeb - Admire Moyo

SKA South Africa and Agri SA today signed an agreement that commits both organisations to jointly ensure that local communities of the Karoo benefit from the SKA project. In anticipation of the impacts that the construction of the SKA radio telescope will have on the...

Agri SA reageer oor plaasaanvalle AGRI SA

Agri SA reageer oor plaasaanvalle AGRI SA

Meer as 8500 plaasaanvalle en 930 moorde oor die afgelope 14 jaar, met meer as 30 plaasaanvalle sedert die begin van 2017 en ‘n moordsyfer wat die hoogte in geskiet het, spreek boekdele oor die volgehoue misdaadaanslag op boere en plaaswerkers. “Die situasie bevorder...

Nkwinti’s populist statements highly irresponsible AGRI SA

Nkwinti’s populist statements highly irresponsible AGRI SA

Minister Nkwinti who has been implicated in a corrupt land deal, has chosen to deflect the attention on him by making a highly irresponsible statement in Parliament yesterday. The taking of land without compensation has never been on the table from the side of...

National minimum wage announced AGRI SA

National minimum wage announced AGRI SA

The Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced the long-anticipated national minimum wage. This comes after two years of negotiations at various levels, said Ramaphosa. According to Neil Hamman, who chairs Agri SA’s Labour Committee, “this brings certainty for...

Agri SA verwelkom vinnige optrede oor die herfs-kommandowurm ProAgri

Agri SA verwelkom vinnige optrede oor die herfs-kommandowurm ProAgri

Die herfs-kommandowurm is amptelik in SA volgens ‘n verslag deur die LNR. Hulle het monsters in Limpopo en Gauteng gekry en kon daarvolgens bevestig dat dit wel die herfs-kommandowurm is. Die minister van Landbou, Senzani Zokwana, het op ‘n nuuskonferensie in Pretoria...

Baie meer mielies is aangeplant ProAgri

Baie meer mielies is aangeplant ProAgri

Die voorlopige skatting van die oppervlakte onder mielies is 30,95% meer is as wat die vorige seisoen aangeplant is en die voorlopige oppervlak onder witmielies is ook 53,46% meer as die vorige seisoen. Die voorlopige oppervlakteskatting van somergewasse is...

Wonderlike reënval in die Kalahari AGRI NK - Coenie van der Merwe

Wonderlike reënval in die Kalahari AGRI NK - Coenie van der Merwe

Coenie van der Merwe, 'n AGRI Noord-Kaap boer 30km oos van Noenieput (170km noord-wes van Upington) het die volgende wonderlike woorde gestuur oor die onlangse reën in hulle area - "Die beste nuus wat ek graag met julle wil deel is dat die Kalahari goed reën gekry het...

List of towns affected by Eskom’s power cuts ENCA

List of towns affected by Eskom’s power cuts ENCA

Eskom on Wednesday announced that power would be interrupted in some North West and Northern Cape municipalities. The Naledi, Lekwa-Teemane and Kgetlengrivier municipalities in the North West were affected. The towns of Vryburg, Stella, Bloemhof, Christiana, Koster...

Agri SA to work on drought defence Bizcommunity

Agri SA to work on drought defence Bizcommunity

The agricultural sector was considering the adoption of smart disaster aid after sections of the industry were brought to their knees by the prolonged drought, Agri SA executive director Omri van Zyl said on Monday. "By 'smart' we mean that we take small bites at it...