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VegetablesA weekly market update from Agricultural Market Trends finds tight supply lifting tomato and potato prices, while onions, still 264% dearer than a year ago, may soon ease.
LivestockJeremiah Jotham built Basadi Agribusiness around a leased abattoir, adding rabbit production and spinach and kale that use its water and by-products.
CropsA Grain SA economist told an NAMC webinar that a large maize surplus could blunt any El Nino price rise, while input costs have outpaced crop prices.
AgribusinessIn a column for Food for Mzansi, Standard Bank's Bill Blackie says early shipments from South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria are already saving duty under China's zero-tariff framework, in force since 1 May 2026.
EnvironmentAt the launch of a plan to install 100,000 weather stations in Africa, speakers said growers need clear spray-or-not advice and local trial results, not more raw data, as El Nino narrows their options.
LivestockJennifer Gazide took over her nephew's backyard poultry project in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, in 2023 and now runs 200 broilers and about 360 layers plus vegetables, supplying spaza shops, crèches and households.
LivestockDr Didi Claassen of the South African Veterinary Association says dogs and cats remain the main human risk, but jackals and mongooses infect cattle, and farmers in high-risk areas can add rabies vaccine to herd programmes.
AgribusinessPoultry and vegetable farmers describe lay-offs and smaller harvests, and the National African Farmers Union calls for a temporary cut in the fuel levy before another fuel price rise in October.
AgrotechAn automated biotelemetry system built by Stellenbosch University researcher Megan le Roux records night-time video of black-backed jackals on farms and uploads it without human help, to study a predator culling has failed to control.
The bank has stopped new applications for its loan-plus-grant scheme for historically disadvantaged farmers for the rest of 2026/27, after demand outstripped the R325 million annual grant.
The Eastern Cape agriculture department has handed a R1.4 million shed with a dipping tank to 48 communal wool farmers at Ngonyama Village, along with 10 Dohne Merino rams.
LivestockAbsa's AgriTrends Spring 2026 sees the maize market well supplied for the rest of the season; Epol's feed director says feed is about 70 percent of livestock input costs, while a poultry producer warns drought reserves and diesel could keep feed prices where they are.
A UKZN-Rhodes University study on a commercial farm near Pietermaritzburg measured a hemp crop using 377 mm of water over a four-month season, about 28 litres a day per plant area, with weeds between the rows taking a large share.
