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Die hittegolftoestande oor groot dele van Suid-Afrika kan dié week voortduur, met rekordhoë temperature wat plek-plek voorspel word. Terselfdetyd word vermoed dat die droogtetoestande somergewasaanplantings reeds aansienlik geknou het. Die reënpatrone en baie warm toestande wat tot dusver in Februarie voorgekom het, is kenmerkend van El Niño-seisoene. Van 22 Februarie af het reën kol-kol voorgekom, met dele van die Suid-Vrystaat wat die naweek tot 30 mm reën gehad het. Reën, hoewel op plekke lig, het ook oor dele van die winterreënstreek, die suidkus en aangrensende binneland geval. “Soos tydens byna ál die sterk El Niño-verskynsels in die verlede, en veral soos in 2016, het baie droë toestande in Februarie voorgekom,” sê Johan van den Berg, onafhanklike landbouweerkundige. “Gedurende die meeste El Niño-verskynsels wat al voorgekom het, was die eerste deel van die seisoen beter as die tweede deel. Die huidige situasie is dieselfde.”

The excessive heat across SA in recent weeks is a significant concern for the farming sector. The 2023/24 summer crop season started on a favourable footing. We received widespread rains, which was unusual in an El Niño season, which would typically start with drier weather conditions. According to data from the Crop Estimates Committee, SA farmers managed to plant a sizeable summer grain and oilseed area of 4.4-million hectares, up 0,4% from the 2022/23 season. For a while it appeared as though SA was on track for yet another excellent harvest. But since the start of February the rain has been scant across the summer crop-growing regions, raising concern about the yield potential of the crops. Perhaps we should not have been completely surprised by the current difficulty.

Net meer as 60% van die beesvleis wat Saoedi-Arabië invoer, is gevriesde produkte. Die res is verkoelde of vars vleis. Brasilië, Australië, Pakistan, Amerika, Nieu-Seeland en Kanada is die voorste verskaffers aan die Saoedi-Arabiese vleisbedryf, wat sowat R38 miljard werd is.  Tans word 4% van Suid-Afrikaanse beesvleis uitgevoer. Om dit tot 7-8% te verhoog, sal tot groot voordeel van die landbou wees. Ons voorsien dat ons dié groei in Saoedi-Arabië kan bereik.

Those good early-season rains led us to believe the country would have a decent harvest in the 2023/24 production season. But this view has now changed. We worry about possible poor harvests if there is no widespread rain during these closing days of February into the first week of March. Indeed, the Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) also fears the possible decline in the summer grains and oilseed harvest. Its first production estimate for the 2023/24 season placed the summer grains and oilseed harvest at 17,4 million tonnes, down 13% y/y. This is a function of a reduction in planted area and the expected lower yields in some regions.

Outstanding articles of the week. 

"There is little that I could add to the brilliant outlook that my colleague Elmarie Rabe, chairperson of the South African Wine Routes Forum (SAWRF) and head of Stellenbosch Wine Routes, shared on wine tourism and wine trends in 2024," says Marisah Nieuwoudt, wine tourism manager at South Africa Wine. READ MORE 

The 2023 Financing Flows and Food Crises report, developed by the Global Network Against Food Crises, underscores the significant external financing that countries and territories facing food crises have received. Over the past seven years, these areas have received three-quarters of global humanitarian allocations and almost one-third of global development allocations. READ MORE 

The main factor supporting this surge is robust U.S. import demand, fuelled by declining domestic beef production. In the sheep meat market, a decrease in the number of sheep available for slaughter (because farmers kept animals for longer due to recent rains) and high demand for imports globally caused sheep meat prices to rise (2.0%) internationally.  READ MORE 

CRA MEDIA is tans besig met die ontwikkeling van 3 nuwe insetels vir ons mediums.  Ons gaan binnekort ook toetree tot ander mediums wat Landbou op nog 'n beter vlak sal neem. Ons internasionale vennote wil baie graag betrokke raak by ons mediums.  Ons span is baie kreatief en is altyd besig met nuwe idees en programme-  Ons is tans besig met die beplanning van 'n baie eksklusiewe program een sy soort.  Ons sal eersdaags ons nuwe Ekonomiese afdeling in plek.

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