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...
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...
A win-win approach to conflict management
Can you remember the last person you had a fight with? Was it at work or at home? Can you remember what it was about? Have you managed to make peace with them? Are...
Quality overview of imported and local maize
October 2017
Jolanda Nortjé, laboratory manager, Southern African Grain Laboratory NP
Drought conditions experienced over large parts of the maize production regions during the 2014/2015 maize production season, together with the fact that the South African...
European Union agreement that’s falling short
The SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is an important agreement between the European Union (EU) and six members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), namely Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini and Mozambique.
Initially,...
Increased knowledge makes you a better farmer
August 2015
LOUISE KUNZ, SA Graan/Grain contributor
They say it's all in a name and the name Lungelwa means "all will be well". For the 2014 Grain SA/Syngenta Smallholder Farmer of the Year this has been...
What the Boers can teach us about South Africa
July 2017
Growing up in Umlazi in the 1980s and 1990s, I understood the word 'Boer' to mean something very different from the Afrikaans word for ‘farmer’. While I had to study Afrikaans through most of my...
Verwagte klimaat/weerstoestande vir die 2016/2017-somerreënvalseisoen
September 2016
TONIE ROSSOUW, Suid-Afrikaanse Weerdiens
Ten spyte van vorige maande se rekenaarklimaatvoorspellingsmodelle wat ‘n neiging na ‘n matige (swak) La Niña vir die lenteperiode van 2016 voorspel het, dui die neutrale El Niño-Suidelike Ossillasie (ENSO)-waarneming...
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...
Climate change: Resilience needed in agriculture
There is clear evidence that agriculture in South Africa has evolved to take natural climate variation into account. The changing seasonal weather is such that two consecutive seasons are seldom similar. The response to...
