Rocketing: Electricity prices up 177% in a decade – water costs up 213%

Source: Ferial Haffajee, Dauly Maverick, 21 October 2020, photo credit: Efogator.com The sky-high cost of ...

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Oct
What is on the consumer’s mind?

Source: SAPPO Weekly Update, 23 October 2020, photo credit: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com/mg Magazine Various topics were placed ...

26
Oct
Fires in the Free State: help needed now

Source: Agri SA media release, 21 October 2020, photo credit: Kevor Health & Safety One ...

26
Oct
Hot off the press

Source: SAPPO Weekly Update 23 October 2020, photo credit: Caitlin Bensel/Cooking Light SAPPO’s first ever ...

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Oct
Calls for South Africans to buy local to reignite growth

Source: Bizcommunity, 16 October 2020, photo credit: CC0 Public Domain/Phys.org If South Africa is to ...

26
Oct
Some good news on the cards for SA’s farmers

Source: Wandile Sihlobo, Fin24, 12 October 12, photo credit: Farming for Tomorrow The available data ...

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Oct
Reaction to the president’s reconstruction and recovery plan

NWU Business School It is not a bold reform plan and there was insufficient emphasis ...

19
Oct
Brazil to suspend tariffs on corn and soy until 2021

Source: Global Ag Media/The Pig Site, 19 October 2020, photo credit: Amazon.in Brazil will suspend ...

19
Oct
Drone drops off bacon surprise

Source: Jennifer Shike, Farm Journal’s Pork, 15 October 2020 A drone delivering bacon turned heads ...

19
Oct
Hopes for regionalisation policy with ASF in Germany

Vladislav Vorotnikov, Pig Progress, 9 October 2020 The occurrence of African Swine Fever (ASF) in ...

19
Oct
Big diesel price drop brings input cost relief for farmers

Lloyd Phillips, Farmer’s Weekly, 7 October 2020 As things stand, South Africa’s summer crop farmers ...

19
Oct
Tech disruption will only accelerate in decades beyond Covid-19

22 September 2020. Photo credit: Google Sites The global COVID -19 pandemic and the subsequent ...

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Oct