Sustainability is a journey, not a destination
February 2017
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, uitvoerende hoofbestuurder/CEO
The past festive season was really one of extremes in terms of wind and weather for summer grain production. Initially dry days with the wind blowing everything to dust...
Making an everyday moment a masterpiece
Elliott Erwitt, a French-born American advertising and documentary photographer, known for his candid black and white photos of everyday settings, wrote: ‘To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting...
Monitoring indicates improved quality over years
A memorandum of understanding for the funding and management of the 2019 fertiliser and lime quality monitoring project was entered into by and between the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (now Department of...
Akademikus, produsent en brugbouer
Prof Danie Vermeulen, dekaan van die Fakulteit Natuur- en Landbouwetenskappe by die Universiteit van die Vrystaat (UV), glo dat landbou in Suid-Afrika kerngesond is. Hy skryf dit toe aan die vernuf en kwaliteit van...
Hoe nou vorentoe?
December 2017
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, HUB
Die jaar het uitgeloop. Rekordoeste in die noorde en ‘n droogteramp in die suide. Dan is daar ook ‘n hoogs emosionele vlaag van plaasmoorde wat almal ontstig. Die leierskap gaan...
Die Anakonda
June 2015
Beste Grootneef
Langenhoven het baie spitsvondighede kwytgeraak. Een daarvan was “Een man met ‘n goeie plan, is ‘n meerderheid”. Só was dit ook die aand met die Jeugkommissie. Die debat was genadiglik nie oor...
Fluisteringe uit ‘n ou gebou
April 2015
Beste Grootneef
Ek en Buurman het vroeër vandeesweek oor die draad staan en kuier. Dis droog man, die veld is sommer vaal. Buurman vertel toe dat die ou NAMPO-gebou in Bothaville uiteindelik verkoop is.
Daardie...
How many ‘away’ games still to come?
February 2019
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, CEO
Our older producers always used to refer to the eighties when they spoke about challenging agricultural eras. They would tell the younger guys that what they are experiencing is nothing...
Spaan se trein
September 2015
Beste Grootneef
Ou Neef, dit klink of die Spaanse trein gaan sit. Dis nou in die Daspoorttonnel. En die Du Toitsklooftonnel. Eintlik klink dit of die nuwe treine oral gaan sukkel om in te...
