What does the increase of the minimum wage mean to producers?
On 4 February 2025, the Minister of Labour published the adjusted national minimum wage (NMW) rates in the Government Gazette. The increase from R27,58 to R28,79 is a 4,4% increase for each ordinary hour...
Commodity price scenarios that grain producers can expect in the next season
13/06/2024
Agriculture – including the grain industry – works in cycles. Even down to the soil level, cycles are fundamental to the grain industry’s existence: the soil goes through cycles of cultivation; the crop goes...
Investment in soybean industry creates new opportunities
Continuous development of new varieties with improved quality and yield characteristics is indispensable to the sustained production of crops. Likewise, continuous investment in breeding constitutes an important requirement for an industry to remain viable....
SAADPRYSE VIR SOMERGRAAN: 2025
GRAAN SA SPEEL ’N SLEUTELROL IN DIE DEURLOPENDE MONITERING VAN INSETPRYSE NAMENS SY LEDE, MET SPESIFIEKE FOKUS OP SAADPRYSE OOR TYD OM DEURSIGTIGHEID TE BEVORDER EN MEDEDINGING IN DIE SAADBEDRYF AAN TE MOEDIG. HIERDIE...
Plan early when it comes to financing
In agriculture, timing is crucial, particularly for planting and securing the necessary financing. For grain producers in South Africa, aligning financial planning with crop cycles is essential for economic sustainability and enhanced productivity.
Producers need...
Die impak van werklike VRAAG EN AANBOD op plaaslike graanpryse
17/09/2024
Suid-Afrika se graanmarkte het eers in 1997 as ’n vrye mark begin funksioneer toe die Wet op die Bemarking van Landbouprodukte uitgevaardig en markte gedereguleer is. Dit het beteken dat markdeelnemers soos produsente, handelaars...
Riglyne vir die bepaling van oesopbrengs
Oesskattings bly altyd ’n kontroversiële saak, aangesien daar ontsettend baie aspekte is wat dit kan beïnvloed. Onthou net as ’n oesskatting gedoen word, is dit daardie bepaalde punt se skatting. Indien die grond fisies...
DIE WISSELKOERS: Wat kan gebeur en hoekom maak dit saak?
11/10/2024
In Suid-Afrika is die rand/dollar-wisselkoers ’n uiters belangrike ekonomiese aanwyser vir verskeie bedrywe en markte. Nie net het die wisselkoers ’n effek op Suid-Afrika se makro-ekonomiese omgewing nie, maar ook op die landbousektor. Wanneer...
Climate’s effect on Swartland canola production
In addition to soils, agro-chemical inputs and management, dryland canola production potential is highly influenced by climatic factors such as temperature, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, and rainfall amount and distribution.
In the Western Cape, information...
New export markets explored for soybeans
Globally over the past 20 years, soybean has been dynamic, with double the area planted and expectation of further expansion in future. Developments in the global soybean market since 2020 have resulted in the...
