Agri SA is displeased with President Cyril Ramaphosa's statement that there is “no killings of farmers" in South Africa. He said this in an interview at the United Nations in New York in response to US President, Donald Trump's controversial tweet in August. 

Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Patrice Motsepe says South African farmers, both black and white, need to be safe in the knowledge that their right to land and assets are protected.

Sedert die ANC vroeg in Augustus hul steun vir onteiening sonder vergoeding (OSV) gegee het nadat ’n mosie daaroor in die parlement geslaag het, heers onsekerheid in Suid-Afrika en die landbou. Dit het ’n negatiewe uitwerking op ons ekonomie en beleggingsvertroue gehad, en tot ’n verharding in gesindhede gelei. 

Farmers from South Africa will visit the Russian peninsula of Crimea to exchange experience in winemaking, as they face the possibility of losing their farms as part of their country's land reform.

Agri SA is looking forward to the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni’s maiden Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in Parliament tomorrow.

Agri SA congratulates the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, on his first Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) as it contains several promising policy indicators.

Werksgeleenthede in die landbou sal oor die volgende dekade dramaties daal weens die abnormale uitvloei van arbeid wat toegeskryf kan word aan die uiterste ekonomiese druk waaronder die landboubedryf gebuk gaan, die nuwe ongekende tegnologiese ontwikkeling wat voortspruit uit die vierde nywerheidsrewolusie in die wêreld en die onteiening van grond sonder vergoeding,” sê Fanie Brink, ‘n onafhanklike landbou-ekonoom.

Die Appèlhof het in September vanjaar uitspraak gegee in die saak van Mzimkhulu Martiens Monde en Jacobus Johannes Viljoen en andere. Die saak het gehandel oor ’n verblyfreg-dispuut.

The drought conditions in some parts of South Africa are still having a severe impact on the sustainability of many farms. Farmers in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Limpopo are still under threat by the continuing drought.

Agri SA will continue to pursue all credible avenues to protect the interests of farmers and farming communities, including challenging an amendment of section 25 in court. Decision by parliament is not the final step in the process, and there is time and legal remedies remaining to halt an amendment.

Food security is a hard-won privilege and can easily be lost due to the persistent drought. Agri SA will rally all stakeholders to support farmers and farm workers in drought afflicted areas. Rising food prices, malnutrition and food-inequality will be our future if nothing is done.

When you go shopping you may not be driving a badly pothole-ridden road, like the ones in many rural areas. But those bumps still shake you on every trip to the supermarket.

Agri SA verwelkom President Cyril Ramaphosa se staatsrede. Agri SA benadruk en verbind hom tot President Ramaphosa se stelling dat dit elke Suid-Afrikaner se verantwoordelikheid is om vooruitgang te verseker.

Agri SA acknowledges Eskom’s efforts to keep the lights on, but we are concerned by the potential negative impact that load shedding can have on the agricultural sector and the broader value chain. 

Agri SA se lede het die vermoë om elektrisiteit deur sonkragopwekking te verskaf, wat nodig is om toekomstige beurtkrag te voorkom.

Agri SA hoop die 2019 begroting sal positiewe verbintenisse lewer wat doeltreffend geïmplementeer sal word om die begrotingstekort te beperk en ekonomiese groei te ondersteun. Agri SA sien uit na die Minister van Finansies, Tito Mboweni se eerste Nasionale Begrotingsrede. 

On Thursday, a new agricultural organisation called SAAI was launched. SAAI is an acronym for the Southern African Agriculture Initiative, which means "sow" in Afrikaans.

The most recent state-backed land conference in Pretoria was full of sunshine. Through an ionic colonnade, the generous tiled portico of St George’s Hotel gave onto a neatly styled courtyard garden nestled between mosaics of ancient gods and cherubs and fountains and ponds.

AgriSA president Dan Kriek – cattle farmer, and member of President Cyril Ramaphosa's special advisory panel on land reform – is emerging as an increasingly controversial figure in the regathering storm over blood-and-soil politics. 

Industry body Agri SA’s ‘Agriculture Drought’ report for 2018/19 finds that the agriculture sector has shed 31 000 jobs since January 2018 in provinces severely affected by the drought; this also includes a R7-billion loss in turnover.