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December 20, 2018
Pakhouse-Table-Grape-Season

Orange River harvest in full swing

South Africa’s biggest early season table grape region bounces back after late start, with normal weekly volumes now being shipped. The South African table grape season has seen a late start, but with the Orange River […]
December 20, 2018

It’s a bitter end for sugar as investors line up for 2019 losses

Piles of graded refined sugar sits in boxes at a lab Nikolaev, Ukraine. Picture: Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg Sugar is ending 2018 on a bitter note on signs that a price collapse could get even worse next year. […]
December 20, 2018
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Hard to imagine what the global soybean market would be without China

US soya farmers eye new markets’ – that’s the headline of an article in today’s Business Day and also in The Wall Street Journal. It notes that ‘With trade tension cutting deeply into exports, US soybean farmers, industry groups […]
December 18, 2018
Pakhouse-Soybean-Industry

Improving the soybean value chain

The Protein Research Foundation (PRF) recently facilitated a soybean planning session led by Professor Ferdi Meyer and Dr Erhard Briedenhan, which highlighted the soybean industry and its significant progress over the last five years, with local […]