The new crop season for South Africa begins at the time when the northern hemisphere’s season tails off and harvest estimates start trickling in. The global harvest outlook and stock…
It’s a common scene across many African countries’ rural areas: cows grazing peacefully. But, by 2050, heat stress induced by climate change may drastically alter this familiar picture. Findings from the…
The fraud and corruption case related to the controversial R280m Estina Dairy farm project has been transferred to the Bloemfontein High Court from the Bloemfontein Regional Court on Wednesday. The…
In South Africa, a country where the all-day ‘braai’ is a national pastime, plant-based substitutes are making surprising inroads despite a deep cultural love of meat and hostility from the…
A new deal has been signed between South Africa and Saudi Arabia, which will see South Africa export beef – amongst other red meat products – to the Kingdom of…
South Africa’s consumer food price inflation accelerated further to 12,3% year-on-year in September 2022, from 11,5% year-on-year in the previous month. The products behind this monthly increase were mainly bread…
This year, we commemorate World Food Day in a tough reality. We are confronted with the lingering fragility of our global food systems. The outlook for the food industry remains…
The Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza, has launched a R3.2bn blended finance scheme with Land Bank to assist farmers. The programme will be implemented over…
According to Nonie Mokose, South Africa needs to amplify the policies of transformation to empower Black female farmers and force the gender agenda into the mainstream through deliberate actions. Mokose…
Technically, Robertson Winery is 81 years old this year. But in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, multiple alcohol sales bans and the loss of the winery’s CEO Andre Engelbrecht to cancer…