Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Elvis Pieters van Rietfontein in die Koue-Bokkeveld het die Gevorderde Landbouwerker van die Jaar-merietetoekenning ontvang vir sy uitsonderlike werksvernuf, sterk persoonlikheid en goeie leierskap. Pieters, wat op Rietfontein gebore is, het in 2002 daar begin werk nadat…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Die onlangse haelstorm in die Langkloof het ongeveer 1500 ha appel-en peerboorde geraak en infrastruktuur op verskeie plase vernietig. Die totale verlies aan uitvoervolumes is in die orde van 1,2 miljoen kartonne. Dit verteenwoordig tussen 20% tot…
In die vrugtebedryf, soos in alle ander bedrywe, kan jy soos ‘n bedryfskenner klink deur net ‘n paar van die regte terme te ken. Tru-Cape se bemarkingsdirekteur, Conrad Fick, beskryf ‘n paar van die mees algemene terme. Eerstens verwys ons na appels…
A group of hikers, with the help of Hortgro, Kromco and the Paul Clüver clan from De Rust Farm in Elgin created a hiking event in the Groenland Mountains. It was labelled Hiking for Hunger. The idea was to walk…
By Kara van der Berg Apricots have been eaten since ancient times. The Romans called it Praecocum – the precious one. The tiny stone fruits are packed with protein, fibre, and minerals and have been found to be effective in…
Caption: All parties look happy as they sign the new agreement between the ARC and Culdevco. At the back: Prof Bongani Ndimba, Dr Cynthia Motsi, Dr Leon von Mollendorff from Culdevco. In front, Dr Shadrack Moephuli and Dappie Smit from Culdevco…
The HORTGRO Science Technical Symposium 2019 is here to help The territory has not become more forgiving and likely never will. Whether the grower’s orchard is faced with perpetual onslaughts by unrelenting pests or being choked by increasingly common water…
On 31 March 2022, the Deciduous Fruit Industry (DFI) hosted the inaugural Transformation Awards gala dinner in Stellenbosch. A momentous evening where all the short-listed candidates swopped their overalls and Wellingtons for black tie attire. The event was jointly hosted…
Despite all the technological advances of the past century, there is one basic thing that people have simply not yet managed to learn: to wash their hands. Diseases and germs will not spread so widely if people can only start…
Mark Boerlage farms on the 40 ha farm Sparrenburg, just outside Ceres, with a small team, but he is doing big work when it comes to mentoring. Text and pictures: Gerrit Rautenbach It takes a special kind of person to…
Hortgro Science in collaboration with the FruitFly Africa Centre of Excellence for Monitoring is conducting surveillance* and monitoring for polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB) and spotted wing drosophila (SWD) in the main deciduous fruit production areas of South Africa. PSHB Polyphagous…
Richard Myburgh started out as a fruit hawker. His business was small but grew quickly. Soon he outgrew the packhouse that he was renting and it was time for him to buy his own farm. Today, despite some serious drought…