Glenneis Kriel

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

Billy van Zyl, national chairperson of the National Wool Growers’ Association, ascribed this to poor economic conditions, which negatively affected purchases from major buying countries; changing fashion trends, such as some synthetic fibres now being recyclable; trade disruptions caused by the foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in the country; and the impact of drought on various production regions.

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

Unfortunately, his pumpkins were not heavy enough to beat the world record of 1 247kg, which was produced by Travis Gienger of the US and presented at the 50th Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California, on 9 October 2023. André du Plessis of Riversdale took second place with a pumpkin that weighed 954kg, while last year’s winner, Pieter Conradie of Nuy Valley, took third place with a pumpkin that weighed 737kg.

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

The theme of this year’s Earth Day is ‘Our power, our planet’, aimed at uniting people around renewable energy and tripling clean electricity usage by 2030. Shelly Fuller, fruit and wine project manager at World Wildlife Fund South Africa (WWF-SA), told Farmer’s Weekly that the wine industry in collaboration with WWF- SA launched the Biodiversity and Wine Initiative in 2004 to promote environmentally responsible production practices.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.