By Lucille Botha Trees laden with clusters of glossy red cherries, gleaming like jewels in the sunlight, signal the start of the 2025 cherry season in Ceres. Thanks to near-perfect growing conditions this spring, producers expect a 5–7% larger crop…
Chester Fisch made everyone feel the music when he won Agri’s Got Talent 2024 (AGT 2024) on Friday night, 11 October, at Dawn Mountains, Simondium, with the famous Michael Jackson hit “The Way You Make Me Feel.” It was not…
‘n Bekende in landboukringe, Chris Krone, is tydens die 17de Kongres van die Internasionale Pruimedante-vereniging, in Villeneuve Sur Lot, Frankryk, as die nuwe president van die vereniging verkies. Krone, van Tulbagh, sal in die posisie leiding neem tot en met…
Dit is waar dat daar nog te min vroue in die Suid-Afrikaanse landbousektor is. Christine Hanekom, bemarkingsbestuurder by Stems Fruit, het aan Kara van der Berg vertel dat vroue wel ’n belangrike plek in die bedryf het. Christine Hanekom het…
The technical production story of the recent pome fruit season concluded with a fairly happy ending given plot twists such as extreme weather events, “reliable” cultivars underperforming, and a global pandemic that almost single-handedly disrupted the fruit value chain. Despite…
There are already many clinical studies that demonstrate the benefits of eating more fruit and vegetables. What stands out about a recently reviewed study published by Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts in American Academy of…
A new schedule for CCC workshops has just been released (25 June 2020). Download it here: ccc-workshops The Confronting Climate Change benchmark reports are out now: Please download your copy of the pome fruit 2020 report here:benchmark-report-pome-fruit-2020-fin And the stone…
Climate change is everyone’s problem. As activism grows, the necessity for sustainable, and ethical agri-production practices are more important than ever. Find the CCC’s deciduous fruit benchmark reports here: 2019 Pome Fruit Report:benchmark-report-pome-fruit-2019 2019 Stone Fruit Report:benchmark-report-stonefruit-2019
Climate change is everyone’s problem. As activism grows, the necessity for sustainable and ethical agri-production practices is more critical than ever. Find the Confronting Climate Change deciduous fruit benchmark reports for the period 2023 to 2025, here: 2025 Pome Fruit…
Many outsiders scoff and say that agricultural sector has been “lucky” in that it did not have to close down as a whole during any of the COVID-19 lockdown phases. Those in the know, however, realise just how stressful the…
April 2022 President lifts national state of disaster As you are aware, President Cyril Ramaphosa has lifted South Africa’s national state of disaster more than two years after it was first declared in response to the COVID-19pandemic. Full details of…
By Elise-Marie Steenkamp “We are all in the same storm, but not in the same boat. And we have to be aware that everyone’s boat is different and changing all the time.” This was the message from Dr Colinda Linde,…