The real SOUTH AFRICA – not the new South Africa
September 2018
JANNIE DE VILLIERS, CEO, Grain SA
If I recall correctly it was during a strategic session with the Agri SA team that Mr Chris Klopper explained the concept of moving from the old South...
Werkgroep besoek nuwe wêreldklas tegnologiesentrum
March 2018
CORNÉ LOUW, senior ekonoom, Graan SA
Die Produksie/Insetwerkgroep van Graan SA het sy laaste vergadering vir 2017 by DuPont se nuwe wêreldklas tegnologiesentrum buite Delmas gehou.
Van die belangrike sake wat tydens die werkgroepvergadering bespreek...
Commitment enables progress towards sustainable land use
South Africa is facing many challenges on a number of different fronts – not least of all, successful transformation in the agricultural sector. Change is often uncomfortable and it can be slow. As development...
Time to REFLECT
December 2018
Things happen so fast nowadays that we struggle to keep up. As producers we particularly experience this during planting and harvest time. This involves managing the one important process after the other, long...
Fokus steeds om tot diens van graanprodusente te wees
April 2016
TOIT WESSELS, ledebemarking en kommunikasiebeampte: Graan SA
Tydens die afgelope Kongres het Graan SA terugvoer aan lede gegee wat die resultaat van die heffingsinkomste vir die 2015/2016-seisoen betref.
Alhoewel droogtetoestande oor die land heers en...
Graanroete vir die toekoms…Kongres 2017 en die pad ná die droogte
April 2017
ALZENA GOMES, skakelbeampte, Graan SA en foto’s: ESTIE DE VILLIERS, redakteur: SA Graan/Grain en CHRIS MILNE, Infoworks
NAMPO Park was op 8 en 9 Maart vanjaar weer die middelpunt van gebeure met Graan SA se jaarlikse...
PEOPLE LIKE US do things like this…
October 2018
ALZENA GOMES, public relations officer, Grain SA
Grain SA's NAMPO personnel undertook to give the Nala Ratabilê Children's home an overhaul, as part of celebrating Mandela's 100th birthday. Following a visit to establish the...
Conversion to no-tillage: Perspectives from Argentina
October 2018
STEPHANO HAARHOFF, Department of Agronomy, Stellenbosch University and DR HENDRIK SMITH, conservation agriculture facilitator, Grain SA
Food production is under constant pressure due to variable environmental factors and a growing population. Crop production practices...
Media beleef sukses van KZN- en Oos-Kaap-projekte eerstehands
Ontwikkelende landbou en sy boere lê my baie na aan die hart. Ongeveer vyf jaar gelede het ek vir die eerste keer kennis gemaak met Graan SA se “From Subsistence to Abundance”-ontwikkelingsprogram.
Ek onthou soos...
Graan SA gryp in tydens dieseltekort
Vroeër vanjaar het baie graanprodusente in veral die Vrystaat, Noordwes, Mpumalanga en Limpopo midde-in die stroopproses ’n ernstige tekort aan grootmaatdiesel ervaar. Heelwat van hulle kon nie volstoom met hul bedrywighede voortgaan nie.
Die impak...
