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New tracking device improves farm productivity
FarmTrack has launched a new tracking device which gives farmers the ability to manage their farm productivity... read


BizTrends 2016
[BizTrends 2016] Agribusiness CEOs recognise impact of global megatrends

Frans Weilbach

Global megatrends are changing the way business and society operate, including the agribusiness sector. African agribusiness CEOs see demographic shifts... read
[BizTrends 2016] Top five trends for Agriculture 2016

Cari Van Wyk

With a difficult year ahead there are certain trends that will, more than others, influence the day to day of every farmer and agribusiness and how they put food on our plates... read
[BizTrends 2016] The national minimum wage and South African agriculture

Thabi Nkosi

The implementation of a national minimum wage has been an important point of discussion in recent times. Few can argue against the need for decent wages... read
[BizTrends 2016] Land reform - the unknown future trend

Johan Pienaar

Land reform is a constitutional imperative but whether policy responses in support of this are currently serving equally important goals is debatable... read
[BizTrends 2016] New trends in Agriculture - the ZZ2 experience

Erik Holm, Tommie van Zyl and Johan Koorts

Since the turn of the century ZZ2 had to adapt to (and often pre-empt) major changes in the agricultural landscape - locally and internationally... read
[BizTrends 2016] Trends to shape South African Agribusinesses in 2016

Pieter Spies

Any country's health is founded on its agriculture sector. If agriculture is to have a sustainable future, we cannot keep on doing things the way they have always been done... read


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Agribusiness
Drought an opportunity to change the agribusiness landscape

Nico Groenewald

While the drought is affecting the summer rainfall areas and overall food security negatively during 2016, it should also stimulate the agricultural sector... read
Rain might still avert flood of farming claims
Rain before the autumn or winter will determine whether insurers pay out millions in claims to affected farmers as SA's worst drought in 20 years drags on... read
Agro-processing
The harvest of neglect
If nothing else, the severe drought should serve as a reminder of just how important agriculture is for SA and its economy, and how seriously we should take it... read
The implications of a lingering drought

Prof J. Willemse, Dr D. Strydom, M Venter

In the grip of a multiyear drought, the effect of a severe sub-optimal crop will be felt through the complete value chain into 2016 and beyond... read
Commodities & Fairtrade
SA has two months to implement latest Agoa deal

Simon Barber

SA has two months to show it is implementing week's 11th-hour agreement to open its market to US poultry and other meats or it will again face loss of trade preferences under AGOA... read
Food Security
SA to import maize after driest season in 100 years
Drought-ravaged South Africa said on Friday, 15 January, it would import six million tonnes of the local staple maize - half of the average annual harvest - after the driest season in 100 years... read
Business
Branding lessons learned from religion (Part 2)

Jimmy Tembo

We went through part 1 of this article without defining branding... read
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New events to diarise
Lean Six Sigma Agriculture Confex
One Point Six Media - 3 May 2016 to 4 May 2016, Pretoria


SA Agri Summit 2016
New Life Communications (Pty) Ltd. - 1 Sep 2016 to 2 Sep 2016, Durban


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