Already out of the starting blocks
February 2015
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, uitvoerende hoofbestuurder/CEO
The year has kicked off and is going at full throttle. Our teams are busy with regional meetings in the different areas to share information and to test the...
Focus on those things you can do something about
January 2018
JANNIE DE VILLIERS ,CEO
What will 2018 hold for us as grain producers and citizens? I wonder what we would have done had some of the uncertainties been known to us in advance – would...
What are we to do?
November 2017
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, uitvoerende hoofbestuurder/CEO
The early rains in the north makes one feel somewhat guilty when you think of the Western Cape where people are wondering daily how their dams are going to...
Concerns over Ivermectin black market sales and product availability
Animal health company, Afrivet, issued a statement on Thursday 28 January, calling for the public to be responsible when procuring Ivermectin.
‘The very sudden demand increase for Ivermectin injectable products based on beliefs that Ivermectin...
Plan for agriculture: What comes first?
October 2018
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, CEO
Recently, the agricultural-political environment has not been a pleasant place to be. The intensity has been high, as well as the frequency of issues needing attention. Our leaders are sown...
Growing SA’s economy post-COVID
Even before COVID-19 arrived the South African economy was in trouble. The official unemployment rate reached 30%, while per capita economic growth had been negative for half a decade.
In fact, looking at five-year periods...
Die jaar van saamstaan om die bult uit te stap
January 2016
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, uitvoerende hoofbestuurder/CEO
Voor ek begin skryf het aan dié hoofartikel, het ek gaan naslaan wat ek alles in Januarie 2015 gereken het aandag moet kry en wat deurslaggewend sou wees. Het...
Het mag nou álles geword?
September 2016
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, uitvoerende hoofbestuurder/CEO
— Graan SA woeker met volhoubaarheidstrategie
Wanneer interaksie tussen mense stormagtig en hetig word, is dit verstaanbaar as jy deurmekaar raak met waarop dit nou eintlik aankom.
Graan SA was die...
How do we go forward?
December 2017
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, CEO
The year has run its course. Record crops in the north and a drought crisis in the south. And then there is also a highly emotional flare-up of farm murders...
Diagnostics clinics of value to producers
Diagnostics clinics function to identify the disease affecting a plant, as well as the causal agent which is responsible for a plant to develop symptoms. Importantly, diagnostics clinics also facilitate research, teaching, extension and...
