Digesting this deeply sobering analysis by agricultural economist, Dr Lawrence McCrystal, one cannot help but conclude that land redistribution and restitution by whatever means is nothing more than a populist political tool to consolidate and hold onto power, regardless of the consequences.
In a world that’s warmed 1°C against pre-industrial levels, bringing wildfires, droughts and heatwaves to vast regions of the planet, South Africa has warmed at twice the global average.
The average lamb class A price during October 2018 was under great pressure, and declined month on month to 73.37/kg. Prices have followed a declining trend since July 2018.
The most appropriate thing to write today, given that I am currently gazing over the beautiful wine farms of Stellenbosch, would indeed be wine. Instead, I will be blogging about good old maize, as I have just received the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report for major grains and oilseeds.
The USDA has forecast a 10% drop the Chinese table grape production to 945,000 metric tons (MT) during 2018-19 due to spring frost damage.
Since the beginning of the year, there has been a number of developments in the South African economy in general, and in particular, developments in the agricultural sector.
