Despite frost heavily affecting early cherry varieties, cherry growers remain positive about the overall quality of this season’s harvest and the promising opportunities available in both local and international markets. “While there may be less fruit on the trees this…
Agri workers are in the orchards every day, sunshine, rain, and snow. Please find below posters on easy steps to take when working in heatwave conditions, as part of our climate change awareness campaign and preparation for the upcoming summer…
South Africa is rapidly establishing itself as the leading and preferred source of Pink Lady apples from the Southern Hemisphere. According to Kantar data, Pink Lady sales in the United Kingdom (UK) have risen by 13% over the past year,…
Sixteen years after Thailand banned the import of South African deciduous fruit, due to an administrative error, negotiations are progressing in the right direction. At the time of the imposition of the ban on the exportation of South African fresh…
Deur Jacques Dommisse Die sogenaamde en alombekende derdegenerasie-vloek – ’n fenomeen wêreldwyd dat sommige familiesake dan inplof – is in die 130ste bestaansjaar van die grootliks Ceres-gebaseerde en leidende Dutoit Groep-familieboerdery in die oortreffende trap en met vindingrykheid gesystap. Hennie…
Tien jaar gelede was Anton Rabe, Hortgro se uitvoerende direkteur, op pad erens heen, toe die gedagte hom skielik tref…daar is Idols, America’s Got Talent…hoekom nie ook Agri’s Got Talent nie? “Ons landbouwerkers het soveel meer om te gee as…
Wydverspreide hael het beduidende verliese veroorsaak maar goeie reëns en koue bring gunstige vooruitsigte vir die komende seisoen. Deur Anna Mouton. Op 3 November 2022 is die Witzenbergvallei deur strawwe hael getref wat ernstige skade aan appel- en peerboorde berokken…
Prepared by Brian Berkman, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing The South African 2023 picking season of FLASH GALA ™, the fruit from the Bigbucks tree that has greater than 80% colour, has come to an end. Anthony Rawbone-Viljoen, a veteran grower at…
FruitFly Africa (FFA) het onlangs aangedui dat boordsanitasie in sommige vrugte- en wynproduksiegebiede, aandag kort. Die gebiede sluit in: Hexriviervallei, Olifantsriviervallei, Benede-Oranjerivier, Elgin/Grabouw, Langkloof, Ceres, Wolseley en Tulbagh. FFA het begrip vir die legio uitdagings en ekonomiese druk wat tans…
By Kyra-Kay Rensburg Lona Odendaal has managed to secure 27 internships within the fruit industry, and more than half have gone on to complete graduate programmes and secure work within the industry. What is Odendaal’s recipe for success? She is…
By Kara van der Berg Christynn and Nigel Jacobs bring a literal meaning to the saying “money for jam” with their jam business that started in their kitchen four years ago. The company has since grown out of its home…
Jasmine Bones, an orchardist from Witzenberg Properties, Ceres, dreamed of touching people’s lives and hearts with music. Last night at the Agri’s Got Talent grand finale, held at Goudini, she managed to achieve just that when she became the ninth…