Category Archives: Let’s Talk Fresh

Police and farming sector work closely together to ensure rural safety



Joint media statement issued by the office of the National Commissioner of Police, Agri SA ...

SA agricultural jobs decline by 5% y/y in Q2, 2020

Source: Wandile Sihlobo, Agbiz e-newsletter, 2 October 2020 (The article first appeared in Business Day) ...

ASF numbers in Germany grow; US hog futures rise

Source: Jennifer Shike, Farm Journal’s Pork, 24 September 2020, photo credit: Fox Business U.S. hog ...

Comment by Minister Bheki Cele ‘inappropriate’, says Agri SA

Source: Agri SA media release, 22 September 2020, photo credit: Abigail Javier/EWN The remark ‘Who ...

Rainfall outlook for the summer season

Source and photograph: Carin Venter, Bizcommunity, 21 September 2020 During a webinar hosted by Agricultural ...

SA livestock industry faced with rising input costs

Source: Wandile Sihlobo, Agricultural Economics Today, 21 September 2020, photo credit: Commercial Farmers’ Union Zimbabwe ...

ASF Germany: Markets upside down, 13 cases found

Vincent ter Beek, Pig Progress, 18 September 2020, photo credit: FeedNavigator, GettyImages/Smederevac African Swine Fever ...

Agri SA launches new commercial company

Source: Media release Agri SA, 17 September 2020, photo credit: Dairy Council of California In ...

Here’s why South Africa and its neighbours are anxious about EU and UK post-Brexit trade talks

Source: Mills Soko, The Conversation, 18 September 2020, Photo credit: New Food Magazine As the ...

Nedlac economic recovery plan pivots on public jobs, broadband and big competition for Eskom

Source: Ferial Haffajee, Business Maverick, 16 September 2020, photo credit: DOC Research Institute Government, business ...

ASF: Germany takes protective measures in the affected area

Source: Pig333.com, 15 September 2020, photo credit: KPMG International Infected, surveillance, and buffer zones have ...

The claim that SA’s economy has declined by 51% is a misrepresentation of the facts

Souorce: Imraan Valodia, Maverick Citizen, 9 September 2020, photo credit: Centre for International Gevernance Innovation ...