Smallholder Farmer of the Year category (10 ha, but producing less than 250 tons)...

November 2016 LOUISE KUNZ, SA Graan/Grain contributor and HELENUS KRUGER, photos The winner of the 2016 Grain SA/Syngenta Smallholder Farmer of the Year award, Mr Sizwe Ngwenya (31), is a big dreamer, but not the kind that walks...

Oesdagbaas gee die leisels oor

November 2016 JOHAN SMIT, besturende redakteur: SA Graan/Grain Op 23 September het Graan SA op NAMPO Park afskeid geneem van ‘n personeellid wie se naam oor die afgelope twee dekades sinoniem was met die organisering en aanbieding...

New Era Commercial Farmer of the Year category (250+ tons) A true example to...

November 2016 RUTH SCHULTZ, SA Graan/Grain contributor and HELENUS KRUGER, photos 36 year old Mr Frans Mokoena from the Thabu Nchu district in the Free State, who received the 2016 award for Grain SA/Absa/John Deere Financial New Era...

Kopstukke gesels en geredeneer by Megaweek

November 2016 ALZENA GOMES, skakelbeampte: Graan SA en LIANA STROEBEL, ontwikkelingskoördineerder: Graan SA Agri Mega Week, wat vanaf 14 tot 17 September by Mega Park op Bredasdorp plaasgevind het, het verseker sy reputasie van uiterste weerstoestande...

Harde lesse en spanwerk verseker sukses

November 2016 RUTH SCHULTZ, SA Graan/Grain contributor and HELENUS KRUGER, photos Vir mnr Jozua du Plessis van die plaas Middelbult by Delmas, wat as die Graan SA/Syngenta Graanprodusent van die Jaar aangewys is, is presisie die resultaat van...

Grain producer winners shaping the future

November 2016 RUTH SCHULTZ, SA Graan/Grain contributor and HELENUS KRUGER, photos On 14 October the grain industry gave recognition to and joined in the celebrations of the grain producer winners at a prestigious event held at The Theatre...

Developing farmers reap the benefits of Grain SA’s programme

November 2016 LOUISE KUNZ, SA Graan/Grain contributor The Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson said, ‘Do not judge a day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.’ Commercial producers who are involved in Grain SA’s...

When Grain SA and the Jobs Fund join hands …and the story of two...

October 2016 JENNY MATHEWS, SA Graan/Grain contributor It is common knowledge that Grain SA has long been committed to farmer development and assisting previously disadvantaged farmers in the commercialisation process. Another important part of the development programme has...

Wat jy moet weet oor lidmaatskap

October 2016 DIRK KOTZÉ en TOIT WESSELS, albei ledebemarking en kommunikasiebeamptes: Graan SA Graan SA is 'n outonome bedryfsorganisasie wat in belang van die graanprodusent in Suid-Afrika optree. Lidmaatskap is onderworpe aan 'n vrywillige bedryfs heffing...

Verhaal van grane en oliesade in SA in e-formaat verpak

October 2016 JOHAN SMIT, besturende redakteur: SA Graan/Grain "As jy nie die geskiedenis ken nie, hoe weet jy waarheen gaan jy?" het mnr Crawford von Abo van Bothaville vroeër vanjaar opgemerk tydens 'n persoonlike onderhoud vir Graan...

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