What to do when someone applies for mineral rights on your land
Landowners or lawful occupiers of property often ask what they should do when someone else applies for mineral or petroleum resource rights (or related approvals) on their land. As a producer, it is necessary...
Producers should UNITE TO SURVIVE
The reality that producers face challenges is a universal phenomenon spanning continents – a fact that was once again underscored at the 2024 Congress of Grain SA.
Keynote speaker David Hughes, vice-president of the International...
Stille stryd van die akkerbouers
Die lewe van ’n graanprodusent is ’n roeping van passie en vasberadenheid – ’n leefstyl wat innig verbind is met die grond en die wisselvalligheid van die natuur. Te midde van die eise en...
Rolspelers in graan gesels saam oor stabiliteit in vooruitgang
Nagenoeg 70 landboumaatskappye en -instansies het by die Protea-hotel in Stellenbosch bymekaargekom vir die 39ste simposium en algemene jaarvergadering van die Graanhanteringsorganisasie van Suider-Afrika (GOSA). Dié geleentheid, wat op 18 en 19 Maart gehou...
SA more food secure despite fragile global score
Amidst an international deterioration in global food security for the third consecutive year, South Africa’s position out of 113 monitored countries has improved from 70th in 2021 and 69th in 2020 to 59th in...
Food certainty on the table at Agri SA congress
Adaptability has been one of the key attributes needed to survive in agriculture for many years. Although still immensely important, identifying beneficial partnerships with the ability to find cooperative and creative solutions for challenges...
SAVE THE OVERBERG: protecting a unique landscape
The Overberg region in the Western Cape of South Africa is a place of rolling green hills, unique biodiversity, and fertile soils. Not only does it play host to NAMPO Cape, organised by Grain...
Goue Graan vir Kallie Schoeman
Graan SA se eretoekenning vir uitnemende leierskap in die organisasie asook in verskeie beleidstrukture op nasionale vlak, is toegeken aan Kallie Schoeman van Schoeman Boerdery in Delmas. Schoeman het vanjaar uitgetree as hoofbestuurslid vir...
Land expropriation: Deadline for ad hoc committee on Section 25 extended
The National Assembly has extended to 31 August the deadline for the ad hoc committee that's working on the amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution to allow expropriation without compensation. In this video...
Appèlhof besin oor oordrag van waterregte
Agri SA en die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging van Watergebruikersverenigings (SAAFWUA) het in Augustus die Hoogste Hof van Appèl in Bloemfontein genader vir die aanhoor van drie appèlle (Lötter, Wiid en SAAFWUA). Dit het te make...
