Grain Academy 2017-studente gesels saam
January 2018
ALZENA GOMES, skakelbeampte, Graan SA
Na afloop van die vyfde jaarlikse Grain Academy, het ons by twee van die gegradueerdes van die jongste groep ingeloer, naamlik
me Preline Swart (Graan SA Hoofbestuurslid) en me Petru...
News snippets/Nuusbrokkies
June 2017
SA GRAAN/GRAIN REDAKSIE
Tribute to Dr Pip Nelson
In the early hours of Christmas Day last year, Dr Pip (Sydney Walter) Nelson, one of South Africa’s most recognised maize breeders at local and international level, passed...
Factors affecting price of maize meal Part 1
March 2018
DR CHRISTO JOUBERT, manager: Agro Food Chains, Market and Economic Research Division, National Agricultural Marketing Council
South Africa has processed between 4,095 and 4,361 million tons of white maize for human consumption over the...
White maize meal prices and trends from shortage to deficit – Part 2
April 2018
DR CHRISTO JOUBERT, manager: Agro-Food Chains, Market and Economic Research division, National Agricultural Marketing Council and RIKA VERWEY, senior economist: Agro-Food Chains, National Agricultural Marketing Council
The maize meal value chain experienced many challenges...
Tribute to seed company’s co-founder
April 2017
PEET VAN DER WALT, advertising manager: Pannar
Mr Brian David Corbishley – cofounder and former owner of Pannar Seed – passed away on 7 January this year.
Born on 10 April 1937, he was part...
Land reform: ’Government can’t do it alone‘ – Leona Archary, acting DG of the...
March 2017
LOUISE KUNZ, SA Graan/Grain contributor
Henry Ford, the American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company, said, ‘Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress, but working together is success.’ With a shared...
South Africa’s struggling agricultural sector: What went wrong 20 years ago
December 2018
South Africa’s decision to play by the global rules of free trade post-1994 put the country’s agricultural sector in a difficult position. While it was expected to compete against the best in the...
Kies die regte sonkragstelsel
Met die afname in die koste van kragkomponente asook stygende elektrisiteitspryse, is daar al hoe meer huishoudings en besighede wat sonkrag begin oorweeg. Die moontlikheid vir gereelde beurtkrag na afloop van die grendeltydperk ondersteun...
On-farm participation crucial for CA research
Conservation agriculture (CA) refers to an agricultural management system based on the simultaneous application of three principles: minimum mechanical soil disturbance, an organic soil cover throughout the year and the use of crop and...
A look at the maize crop quality of the 2013/2014 production season
August 2015
JOLANDA NORTJÉ, laboratory manager: The Southern African Grain Laboratory NPC
During the 2014 harvesting season (April to August), a representative sample of each delivery of maize at the various silos was taken according to...
