Category Archives: Let’s Talk Fresh

COVID-19 lockdown triggers rise in rural crime

Source:  Lloyd Phillips, Farmer’s Weekly, 28 January 2021, photo credit: South African Animal Health Association ...

08
Feb
Is the Reserve Bank too conservative?

Source: Johan Willemse, SAPPO News, January 2021, photo credit: The Next Hint The Reserve Bank ...

01
Feb
South Africa summer grains planting data reaffirm positive outlook for 2020/21 production season

Source: Agri News Net Farming Portal/ Agbiz, photo credit: Days Of The Year The latest ...

01
Feb
Alltech global feed survey finds global feed production grew 1% last year

Source: Alltech, January 2021, photo credit: Alexander Kirch/123RF/digitaltrends Alltech released the results of its 2021 ...

01
Feb
Higher food prices look set to ease in second quarter

Source: Wandile Sihlobo, Business Day on 21 January 2021, photo credit: Anna Shvets, Pexels/iPolitics Higher ...

01
Feb
SAPPO’s latest ASF update

Source: SAPPO Weekly Update, 22 January 2021, photo credit: Ranjith Sijii/IDG (CCO)/Computerworld  Here is SAPPO’s ...

25
Jan
New China swine fever strains point to unlicensed vaccines

Source: Dominique Patton, Reuters, 22 January 2021, photo credit: The Native Antigen Company BEIJING (Reuters) ...

25
Jan
Steady interest rates outcome still positive for agriculture in tough times

Comment by Paul Makube, senior agricultural economist at FNB Agri-Business, 21 January 2021, photo credit: ...

25
Jan
World food prices rise for seventh month in a row in December

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 7 January 2021, photo credit, Pinterest ...

25
Jan
African continental free trade agreement: Red tape delays start of trading under new pact

Source: Peter Fabricius, Daily Maverick, 14 January 2021, photo credit: SST Attorneys South Africa is ...

19
Jan
Brace for hefty fuel price increases, warns AA

Source: Motoring reporter and AASA, Times Live, 15 January 2020, photo credit: News Chant South ...

19
Jan
Meat board takes charge to control FMD outbreak in Namibia

Source: Annelie Coleman, Farmer’s Weekly, 11 January 2021, photo credit: Animal Welfare Institute The recent ...

19
Jan