Category Archives: Let’s Talk Fresh

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) ...

06
Oct
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 ...

28
Sep
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 ...

28
Sep
Rainfall outlook for the summer season

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

28
Sep
SA livestock industry faced with rising input costs

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

28
Sep
ASF Germany: Markets upside down, 13 cases found

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

21
Sep
Agri SA launches new commercial company

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

21
Sep
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 ...

21
Sep
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 ...

21
Sep
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 ...

15
Sep
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 ...

15
Sep
Big harvests for 2020, from the summer to winter crops

Source: Media release, FNB, 30 August 2020, Comment by Paul Makube, senior agricultural economist at ...

15
Sep