Thousands benefit from Drought Relief Fund

June 2016 CHRISTO VAN DER RHEEDE, deputy executive director: Agri SA Agri SA has collected R14 million to subsidise or fund the following activities: 12 165 producers were assisted with fodder to keep some of their...

Edwin wil help om hongersnood te voorkom

November 2017 Nuwe Era Kommersiële Boer van die Jaar (250+-ton) RUTH SCHULTZ, SA Graan/Grain medewerker Mnr Edwin Mahlatsi, 2017 Graan SA/Absa/John Deere Financial Nuwe Era Kommersiële Boer van die Jaar word deur die beoordelingspaneel, wat sy plaas...

Organisasie vereer uitgetrede lede én personeel

September 2016 JOHAN SMIT, besturende redakteur: SA Graan/Grain en Alzena Gomes, skakelbeampte: Graan SA Die afskeidsfunksie vir uittredende hoofbestuurslede van Graan SA is vanjaar ingekleur met die tema: ‘n Reis deur tyd. Erkenning vir oud-hoofbestuurslede en...

EXPERTS in anything…were once beginners Grain SA Internship Programme in partnership with DRDAR

July 2018 SINELIZWI FAKADE and LUKE COLLIER, Farmer Development co-ordinators, Grain SA It was the old American President, Benjamin Franklin, who wrote, ‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I...

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

November 2018 LOUISE KUNZ, SA Graan/Grain editorial team and HELENUS KRUGER (photo) In a video clip shown at the awards ceremony, Mr Nhlanhla Sicelo Mngadi from KwaZulu-Natal said that when he joined Grain SA in 2015 he told himself...

New realities … the climate is indeed changing

April 2016 — Hamish McBain JENNY MATHEWS, SA Graan/Grain contributor Retired CEO of Tiger Brands, Mr Hamish McBain, is not a pro ducer but an astute businessman who has gathered a life time of experience in the...

Facing climate variability and change

April 2016 — Prof Willem Landman JENNY MATHEWS, SA Graan/Grain contributor Can you, first of all, cope with variability? It is important to understand that there is a difference between climate change and climate variability.  Climate variability...

Congress 2019 to critically reflect on new footprint

February 2019 NICO VERMAAK, manager: Corporate Services, Grain SA The Grain SA Congress for 2019 will be presented at NAMPO Park, Bothaville, on 6 and 7 March. The theme for Congress will be ‘A critical reflection...

Staatmakers word gegroet

November 2015 WIM VENTER, Oesdagbeampte: Graan SA Graan SA se NAMPO Oesdagkomitee het in Junie vanjaar tydens ‘n smaakvolle middagete op NAMPO Park, van drie staatmakers wat op die Oesdagkomitee gedien het, afskeid geneem. Tydens die geleentheid...

Roete vir die toekoms vasgestel

April 2017 SA GRAAN/GRAIN REDAKSIE “Only once we’ve learnt to truly connect every aspect of life, will we receive the insight to calmly map ourjourney.” – Martin May. Die landboubedryf het gedurende 2016 een van die uitdagendste jare...

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