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At the Rooibos Tea Producers Association AGM, panellists said sampling, drift and handling, not laboratories, drive residue detections that delay shipments and threaten premium export markets.
At a government grower imbizo, the deputy trade minister promised talks with lenders on finance suited to cane growers, and more predictable reviews of the sugar import tariff.
Willie Aucamp says damage from May's floods, which hit more than 10% of the valley's citrus, runs into hundreds of millions of rand, as farmers also count the cost of foot-and-mouth disease.
Abri Lock's Red Rock Santas, run with his father's Locklore and his cousin's JADUP herds near Schweizer-Reneke, put fertility ahead of size: a foundation cow has produced nine calves at a 361-day intercalving period, and the combined 600-cow herd weans about 85 per cent under continuous mating.
Luckhoff irrigation farmer Fanie Botha told Farmer's Weekly after its El Niño preparedness panel that the resilience steps advisers urge cost money smaller farmers do not have: a combine that cost R2 million twelve years ago now costs over R5 million, urea jumped from R8,000 to R16,000 a tonne at pl
Livestock made up 52.7% of Namibia's agricultural economy from 2013 to 2025 and the country's 5.3 million cattle, sheep and goats make it Africa's unusual net exporter of livestock, but ATPI director Salomo Mbai says table grapes, dates, potatoes, a charcoal industry already worth more than N$1.6 bi
At the Rooibos Tea Producers Association AGM near Clanwilliam on 17 September, chairperson Werner Nieuwoudt said rain stopped in mid-June and seedlings sat in nurseries through the June-August planting window; September rain has let planting resume and can lift older plants' yields 20-30%, while gro
At Nampo Cape in Bredasdorp, grain farmers told minister Willie Aucamp that subsidised competitors, slow tariff triggers and some two million tonnes of imports are pushing wheat out of the province; BFAP found local wheat's baking value 39% higher than imports yet its SAFEX price about R700/t lower,
SAPPO's 2026 AGM heard that since November 2025 the industry has handled the country's largest African swine fever outbreak and 17 FMD incidents in commercial piggeries; revised Section 9 controls came in July, 200,000 vaccine doses were logged on its World of Pork platform, global location numbers
Deputy water minister Jack Bloom told a Nampo Cape seminar that Gauteng wastes as much water each year as the Western Cape uses, only 23 of 144 water service authorities earned clean audits, 47% of wastewater plants are critical and 96 criminal cases have been opened against local authorities, loss
