Huge job losses await Aussie food sector
Australia's food and grocery manufacturing sector could shed 130 000 jobs over the next decade.
Afgri consolidates market share in yellow maize milling
Agricultural services provider Afgri Limited has bought Pride Milling's yellow maize milling business.
New lab speeds up H5N2 tests
Ostrich farmers in the Klein Karoo will be able to get faster test results for the H5N2 virus.
Astral fighting off cheap imports
Astral Foods has seen a marginal increase in its revenue and operating profit, despite increasing cheap poultry imports and higher feed costs.
Halaal meat scandal causes outrage in Western Cape
The Western Cape Muslim community is up in arms after a frozen meat importer allegedly re-labelled pork, buffalo and kangaroo meat as halaal beef products.
Agriculture extension services in dire straits
Both the quantity and quality of extension officers could prove a crisis for emerging farmers, according to Agri SA.
National Planning Commission all for fracking
Comments made by the National Planning Commission about hydraulic fracturing are irresponsible, premature and unfortunate, according to a lobby group opposed to the gas extraction technology.
Farmer claims vandalising land claimants cost him R1,1 million
A mango and tomato farmer in the Trichardtsdal area of Limpopo is at his wits' end in trying to get what he described as fair value from the Limpopo Land...
National development has big plans for agriculture
Agriculture is set to play a major role in South Africa's development, as the National Development Plan proposes the sector can create 1 million of the 11 million jobs government...
Capespan sells ExperiCo to Farmsecure
Agribusiness Farmsecure Agri Science has bought the ExperiCo division of Capespan.
Viability of proposed Mpumalanga fresh produce market questioned
Concerns have surfaced in Mpumalanga that a planned large, formal fresh produce market will turn into a white elephant as has happened to similar markets elsewhere in the country.
Struggling ostrich industry suffers yet another setback
The plight of ostrich farmers is growing ever more desperate.
