agriculture
August 6, 2018
The South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) recently released figures for the 2017/2018 grape harvest in their trade newsletter. According to the data, a total of 44 826 952 cartons (4.5kg) of grapes were harvested in […]
July 31, 2018
Chris and Dewald Bothma of North West have converted from conventional maize production to a combination of precision and conservation agriculture methods. But the change did not come easily, and many lessons had to be learnt […]
July 24, 2018
Orange River Cellars has bought the Farmers Pride Raisins facility – which produces 4,000 tonnes of premier quality raisins a year – outside Keimoes in the Northern Cape, a region internationally renowned for the dried fruit […]
July 23, 2018
Farmers do not appear to be overly concerned about the impact of recent winter rain where the maize harvest is still underway in the summer cropping area. Anton Botha, a member of the rain SA executive […]