After engaging with the global experts on climate change, the Carbon Trust, Westfalia Fruit is ensuring compliance with best practice for carbon emissions.

South Africa started its first full-fledged planting of saffron this year, and the first season exceeded all expectations, with most farmers producing successful crops.

Wanting to know more about agriculture in South Africa? Whether you are wanting to export to this country, import from it, or are just plain curious about what happens here, you will find [...]

This week we had a query about starting a poultry enterprise.

When we started the agricultural project in 2003 the term “Global village” was in vogue, perfectly capturing the immediacy and connectedness of the different countries on planet earth. What it [...]

“I would like to know, if I’m starting a vegetable crop farm, how much crops advised for 6 hectares of land? Or how do farmers calculate such? As well, please do add in any information a new [...]

A query this morning was “I’d like to find out about training opportunities on sheep farming, in particular sheep feedlots”. After checking on the caller’s age and whereabouts, we asked for an [...]

There are some situations for which you could not plan. The possibility of them did not exist! At other times, the situation may well have been on your radar, but more as a worst-case-scenario.

Just like the cartoon, hero and sailor man Popeye saved his beloved Olive Oyl with a healthy dose of spinach, so too is the South African Breweries (SAB) providing economic salvation to a local [...]

When South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the nation on July 12 amid violence and destruction of property in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, he warned of several [...]