WINTER GRAIN: The new season is approaching June 2018 Winter is approaching and therefore the new planting season for winter grains is under way and all eyes are focused on the weather expectations for the new season. The Western Cape where most of the country’s winter grains, which includes wheat, canola and barley, is produced
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Scout your crops in June & July June 2018 The area intended to be planted to wheat in the country is estimated to have slightly increased from the actual 491,000 hectares (with a national yield of 1,524 million tons at an average of 3,1 tons/ha) planted last season, to an estimated 500,200 ha’s this coming
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PANNAR’s partnership with farmers brings hope June 2018 In its quest to enrich the lives of farmers, consumers and advance progress, PANNAR made a commitment to provide hybrid maize seed to the value of more than R15 million to various projects across South Africa. This seed will provide second generation stalk borer resistance over an
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THE CORNER POST June 2018 It is said that when your passion becomes your profession, it doesn’t feel like work. Luke Collier, who took over the position of Grain SA provincial co-ordinator of the Eastern Cape, when Ian Househam relocated to New Zealand, agrees that being able to live out your passion in your
23 May 2018 A new record attendance figure achieved during NAMPO 2018 and the feedback from the exhibitors that they mainly did good business testify to the optimism of the agricultural sector despite all the uncertainties facing South African producers. This is the view of Jannie de Villiers, CEO of Grain SA, after the
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NKGONO JANE SAYS… May 2018 It is May – this means that is it NAMPO again – one of the biggest agricultural shows in Africa. I do hope that you are planning a trip to NAMPO this year and I am sure that you will not be disappointed. Please remember to wear flat shoes and
Farmers face these harvest challenges May 2018 The month of June should be a time of planning and preparation for the busy harvest season that lies ahead. This article is for our country’s valued subsistence farmers. Subsistence farmers produce crops on smaller areas, usually 0,5 ha – 5 ha. Harvesting is often done by hand
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KEY FACTORS that influence local maize prices May 2018 In last year’s May article, we looked at ‘What maize prices are telling us’ and discussed the effect that the bumper crop had on local maize prices. Throughout the 2017/2018 marketing season so far, local maize prices were trading at export parity and this was mainly
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KEEP LONG TERM RAINFALL RECORDS May 2018 Please refer to the previous articles in the Pula Imvula magazine written, covering the basics of keeping long term rainfall records in November 2016 and 101 years of rainfall records – a valuable resource for crop production published in February 2017. If you are new to farming it
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