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As a result of his activism, young farmer Willem Petzer has rocketed to fame, becoming one of the loudest voices representing his community with, for instance, over 100 000 people having viewed his YouTube video on farm arson posted four days ago. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This ability to blend in has the obvious benefit of helping to avoid being eaten or, as is the case with predators such as leopards, to help avoid detection so that they can get closer to their prey.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Impossible Foods, the company known for making plant-based meat designed to taste, cook and look like real meat, may soon get into milk. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The hearts of Saai and its members across South Africa go out to the farmers in the Hertzogville area who have lost livestock, pastures, fences and other infrastructure, income of assets in the destructive fires that raged in the area between Christina, Hoopstad, Dealsville and Bultfontein. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

It’s a simple question: Will we be able to feed everyone if the population of the planet rises from about 7 billion people today to 9-10 billion in 2050? If you are a student of Thomas Malthus and buy into his Essay on the Principles of Population, then you believe this type of population increase will result in famine and poverty. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretoriu...

Fanie Brink, Independent Agricultural Economist- Already after the creation of the earth when the population increased rapidly there were people who had needs for food and clothing that were noticed by the "entrepreneurs" of that time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is a desperate need for farmers to control rodents because they destroy 15% of the crops growing in African fields. The most common solution is to use poison. But this can be expensive and can kill many other species. On top of this, rodents eventually become resistant. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Most of the focus in curbing climate-warming gas emissions has focused on the most abundant, carbon dioxide, and one of the most potent, methane, with the fossil fuel industry under pressure to drastically curtail both. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Then there are localised swarms of the African migratory locust (Locusta migratoria migratorioides) in southern Africa. Two other locust species – the red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata) and the brown locust (Locustana pardalina) – are known to have swarmed and caused agricultural damage in southern Africa. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Ho...

But this year it is a hard act to follow due to several lingering, significant developments from the 2019/2020 summer crop season. Most notable of these is the persistent upsurge of summer grains and oilseed prices. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

South Africa’s agricultural sector has been one of the few bright spots in the economy, posting brisk growth of more than 15% in the second quarter (Q2) of 2020 when everything else imploded under the weight of the pandemic and associated lockdowns. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While launching a report entitled “Fuelling the pandemic crisis: Factory farming and the rise of superbugs” World Animal protection has warned that Factory farming is also laying foundations for another devastating health crisis currently sitting in Covid-19’s shadow - Antimicrobial Resistance and the rise of Superbugs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted...

My intention is not to introduce doubt to the current favourable rainfall forecasts for the 2020/21 production season, but rather to reflect on the scars of the previous year. While most regions received late rains and proceeded well, parts of the Eastern Cape did not get sufficient rains to improve dam levels. This was muted until recently, with now increasing reports of a pot...

Across Africa, agriculture is the primary source of livelihoods and the majority of households consume at least a portion of the food they produce. All too often, however, the way food is produced, distributed and consumed in Africa is at odds with the natural capital on which both people and wildlife depend. Unsustainable agricultural practices are driving biodiversity loss and leading to increas...

International price movements in these commodities do influence trading conditions in the domestic market to an extent. For rice, wheat and soybean meal, of which SA is a net importer, global market conditions matter even more. The livestock and poultry industries, which rely heavily on maize and soybean meal for feed, often bear the brunt of global grain market aftershocks --- Send in a voice mes...

In a nutshell, the favourable rains that the Western Cape received in the past couple of weeks, and good soil moisture in other provinces has been of immense benefit to the South African winter crops. We can now safely say – with caution, of course, as the season is still at early stages – that South Africa will not only have one of the good summer crops seasons but a brilliant agriculture season....

Since the start of the agricultural evolution, the sector has been defined by research and innovation to increase productivity to meet the food demand of the world. More recently research and innovation include technology development that is adopted throughout the value chain, comprehensive and inclusive digital solutions, and very importantly ethical and safe practices – both for industry role pl...

We are a Construction and Project management company established in 2002 with our offices based in Durban Kwazulu Natal and conduct business in the whole of South Africa. Our company is a multi disciplined construction entity and we cover all spheres of the industry. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Agri SA has already approached the Minister of Police for a meeting to discuss the safety of the agricultural community in an attempt to find solutions to the culture of violence experienced in farming are --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die wynbedryf is in krisis agv die verbod op drankverkope. Ons gesels hieroor met Kwagga Boucher. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As SA’s summer crop — which includes maize — is set to be one of the best on record, focus now shifts to the outlook for winter crops, specifically wheat. Alas, for wheat farmers the 2020/2021 season had a bad start because of dry weather conditions, and production forecasts looked bleak. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Africa will be unable to meet demand for meat and milk by 2050 and benefit from growth in the livestock sector unless countries adopt new policies and innovations, according to a new report. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To zoom into the details, the downward revision of US maize production resulted in a 2% decline in the 2020/21 global maize production from June estimates to 1.16 billion tonnes. Nevertheless, this is still 4% higher than the previous season, supported by expected large production in South America, Europe and parts of Asia. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hos...

Farm profitability can be measured using earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA), net farm income, operating profit margin ratio, rate of return on farm assets, and rate of return on farm equity. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.