Former Tongaat Hulett executives released on bail in fraud case
A culture of deference and a lack of challenging authority at Tongaat Hulett Limited (THL) resulted in employees following instructions without questioning the basis for accounting practices, according to an...
‘Ramaphosa’s SONA pronouncements need to be turned into action’
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA 2022), on Thursday, 10 February, has been met with mixed reactions from stakeholders in the local agriculture sector.
Call to halt captive breeding of all big cat species
Animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS is urging government to include all big cat species, including tigers, in its new protective legislation for lions, and prohibit the commercial trade in all...
‘Minimum wage increase could cripple smaller farmers’
Small- and medium-sized horticulture farmers, in particular, will be worst affected by the recently announced increase in the national minimum wage, according to Mariette Hugo, Hortgro’s group operations manager.
SONA 2022: ‘Economically sound actions needed to drive agri growth’
Outlining their expectations for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), scheduled for Thursday, 10 February, agricultural associations agreed that more action and less talk about economic recovery...
Fears mounting about renewed FMD outbreak in KZN
Farmers in the Mtubatuba district of KwaZulu-Natal are “hoping and praying” that the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) case detected at a dip tank in the previously reduced Disease Management Area (DMA)...
‘Rising Russia-Ukraine tension could affect SA wheat price’
Although the current political tensions between Russia and Ukraine have not yet spilled over to global agricultural commodity markets, it could have serious implications for the rest of the world.
Billions in farming insurance pay-outs weigh on US taxpayers
Between 1995 and 2020, farmers in the US received more than US$143,5 billion (about R2,2 trillion) in federal crop insurance pay-outs, much of it subsidised by taxpayers.
World Wetlands Day: SA farmers praised for wetland conservation
Wetlands and the essential role these areas play is often overlooked, neglected and abused.
‘Turn-around strategy needed for SA’s malting barley industry’
South Africa’s malting barley production fell 95 000t short of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (AB InBev) 360 000t-mandate during the past season, due to farmers rather planting crops with lower risk, such...
‘Interest rate increase not all doom and gloom for agri sector’
The latest increase in the repo rate as announced by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) should curb inflation, which could hold more benefits than disadvantages for South African agriculture...
Heavy rain puts a damper on SA’s maize crop estimate
South African growers have planted around 2,6 million hectares of maize this summer season, 5,29% less than the 2,7 million hectares planted in the previous season, the Crop Estimates Committee...
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