Glenneis Kriel

1 week ago | farmersweekly.co.za | Glenneis Kriel

KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the North West reported the highest incidents of fatal crashes, with KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 17 and Gauteng and North West for 10 each. Most of the fatal crashes (26,6%) occurred on Easter Saturday and the least (12,3%) on Easter Monday. SafeguardingIn a press statement, Dipesh Radia, chief commercial officer at Momentum Insure, urged South Africans to be proactive and make safety a central part of their Easter travel plans.

2 weeks ago | farmersweekly.co.za | Glenneis Kriel

At the congress, Villiers Loubser, president of Agri Western Cape, said that while Agri SA was sometimes criticised for taking too long to communicate new information, this was because the organisation and its provincial affiliates wanted to ensure the information they released was entirely accurate and based on facts. “We do not want to spread falsehoods or create sensation, but rather focus on communicating information that is relevant to the agriculture sector,” he said.

3 weeks ago | farmersweekly.co.za | Glenneis Kriel

In January 2022, Milk South Africa (Milk SA), in conjunction with ASSET Research, initiated the development of a web-based tool called Dairy Environment Sustainability, or DESTiny for short, to help dairy producers analyse and calculate their carbon footprints. Riana Reinecke, who developed DESTiny as part of her doctorate in sustainable dairy production at Stellenbosch University, says the tool is much more than a carbon calculator, as it considers a farm’s environmental impact holistically.

3 weeks ago | farmersweekly.co.za | Glenneis Kriel

AGFACTS Newsbrief estimated the total tractive power in the South African tractor park at 8,72 million kW in 2024. This is 6% higher than in 2023 (8,21 million kW), 32% higher than a decade ago (6,48 million kW), and nearly double the 4,37 million kW of 2004. The tractive power of tractors younger than ten years old is currently 5,33 million kW, up 13% on the 4,71 million kW of 10 years ago, and almost 86% up on the 2,87 million kW of 20 years ago.

3 weeks ago | farmersweekly.co.za | Glenneis Kriel

This followed after the Chinese market opened up to South African avocado exports. Since then, South African has shipped one 40ft container carrying 21t to China in 2024. While this only represented 0,03% of South Africa’s total avocado exports of 81 012t, Derek Donkin, CEO of the South African Subtropical Growers’ Association, told Farmer’s Weekly that the Chinese market presents huge growth opportunities for South African exporters and producers.