US ranked as the WCape’s largest export market
United States has been ranked as the Western Cape’s largest export market. The Western Cape’s global exports grew by 22.1% last year, to a value of close-on R167bn in 2021,…
Farming boosts SA’s fourth-quarter GDP growth
South Africa’s economy expanded in the final quarter of last year driven by a recovery in agriculture and manufacturing, data showed on Tuesday, a boost for President Cyril Ramaphosa who…
Landbou Radio – 8 March 2022
A GAP-Analysis was done to determine the restructuring of the red meat industry. There are many possibilities where growth, traceability, transformation, biosecurity and service delivery can be improved to benefit…
Landbou Radio – 7 March 2022
Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems and this approach focuses on aspects such as increasing biodiversity, the regeneration of topsoil and it aims…
Landbou Radio – 2 March 2022
It is said that lambs that have been fed lamb creep feed, often experience less stress at weaning. When stress is minimized, health and performance will be impacted positively. In…
Young graduates launch their own wine brand
What started as a learning project has now become the development of a brand by a team of young Pinotage Youth Development Academy ( PYDA) graduates, the first of its…
The future of food security: Challenges that farmers are facing
According to the regional food security body, the IPC, 11.8 million South Africans faced crisis levels of food insecurity last year. The main drivers for this were Covid-19, economic decline,…
Electricity tariff hike another blow to SA agri sector
The electricity tariff hike decision made by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) to grant Eskom a 9.61% increase in the electricity tariff will place even more strain…
Landbou Radio – 28 February 2022
According to the Regenerative Agriculture Association of South Africa, regenerative agriculture is a system of farming principles and practises that strive to regenerate soils by restoring the carbon cycle, the…
Russia-Ukraine conflict likely to cause some food items’ prices to increase in SA : Sihlobo
Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa Chief Economist Wandile Sihlobo says the Russia-Ukraine conflict is likely to create an upward swing of some food items’ prices in South Africa. Russia…