THE CORNER POST June 2020 Louise Kunz, Pula Imvula contributor. Send an email to louise@infoworks.biz Mentorship is in essence the process of guidance and training by passing one’s knowledge and expertise on to a mentee. It has become one of the cornerstones of the Grain SA Farmer Development Programme. To Jurie Mentz, provincial co-ordinator
A WORD FROM…Derek Mathews June 2020 The Pula Imvula team chatted with Grain SA’s newly elected chairperson, Derek Mathews. We asked him why he thinks farmers should belong to an organisation like Grain SA. This is what he had to say: ‘Now, more than ever before, it is very important to not only belong, but
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Farmers contribute far more than the food they produce June 2020 Jenny Mathews, Pula Imvula contributor. Send an email to jennymathews@grainsa.co.za Good farmers produce an abundance of healthy food and many other valuable goods too. Farmers take care of the soil, they conserve water resources and wildlife and they’re the caretakers of mother nature.
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Maintain a balanced management approach June 2020 Marius Greyling, Pula Imvula contributor. Send an email to mariusg@mcgacc.co.za In this series of articles, we concentrate on farm management. To refresh your memories – the different areas of farm management are production, purchasing, marketing, financial management, administration (office), human resources, public relations, asset and stock management
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Reassessing your fertilisation programme after a bumper crop June 2020 Written by a retired farmer The 2019 to 2020 cash-cropping season is distinctive in many production areas, for drought conditions that delayed planting of crops in the ideal planting window. Other areas had more normal early season rains and so farmers could plant all their
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