South Africa

The prices for most dairy products on an international online dairy auction platform showed an increase for the first time in about five months.

Recently-appointed SAAGA chairperson, Kosie Eloff, shared the following observations about the current avocado season...

It was crucial that a feasible financing model be found to help new farmers, said Prof Nick Vink, chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Stellenbosch, at Agri Northern Cape’s recent congress in Kimberley.

Police in KwaZulu-Natal are reportedly investigating the motive behind the recent murder of farm manager Mngoma Mbanjwa (51) on Lockwood Farm near Ixopo.

The Jacaranda Agricultural Show will take place at the Tshwane Events Centre north of Pretoria, from 26 - 29 August 2015.

The North West provincial government valued the significant role women farmers played in the economy of the province, according to Supra Mahumapelo, North West premier.

There was need for a collective effort to eradicate farm murders and acts of criminality in rural areas and farms in the country, said Mlibo Qoboshiyane MEC for Eastern Cape Rural Development and Agrarian Reform following the murders of Hermien Gouws (88) and her son Ruben (65), recently.

The expected drop in fuel prices has been welcomed by organised agriculture which is battling high input costs.

Retired Ida High School principal Ruben Gouws (65) and his mother, Hermien (88), were found brutally murdered on Pinevale Farm near Elliot in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, 15 August.

Following the August 2014 announcement of South Africa’s first ever commercially grown black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) in the Dullstroom area of Mpumalanga, the Western Cape can now lay claim to also having grown its very own specimen of this expensive fungus.

Last week’s temporary suspension of services at some post offices in SA owing to a fuel shortage negatively affected the agriculture sector, according to Neels de Villiers, Free State Red Meat Producers Organisation (RPO) chairperson.

Millions of rand worth of damage was caused when a burglary at the BKB shop and goods receiving store at Paterson near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape went wrong and a fire broke out.

A wine grape producer from Robertson has been found not guilty on assault charges.

It is unlikely that South Africa will dissolve into a full blown economic crisis, but government has to urgently address a number of challenges if the country is to escape its current low growth cycle.

“Substantial progress” was being made in resolving the energy crisis that led to load-shedding costing the economy R1 billion/month, said President Jacob Zuma.

People around the world are celebrating World Elephant Day today. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness about elephants, the threats to their survival, as well as the initiatives underway to save these animals from extinction.

South Africa’s poultry industry believes the US is using the renewal of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) as an opportunity to flex its muscles over SA’s current ban on chicken imports from the US.

Smallholder farmers in Gauteng, Limpopo, North West and Western Cape are set to become the first beneficiaries of a partnership between the agriculture department and JSE-listed Tiger Brands.

By the end of August, South African producers will again be able to export fresh ostrich meat to the EU.

Disruptions in vaccine production at Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) seem to be coming to an end with the summer vaccines for blue tongue (BT), African horse sickness (AHS), lumpy skin, B. Phemeral and Rift Valley fever (RVF) now available on the market.