by Wandile Sihlobo | Aug 30, 2018 | General Comments
September 3 is an important date for the global wheat market – thanks to Russia. The country’s agricultural ministry will be meeting with grain exporters to discuss the market situation and export plans for the 2018/19 season. The outcome of this meeting will be...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Aug 27, 2018 | General Comments
Zimbabwe is increasingly consuming more wheaten products. Over the past five years, the country’s wheat consumption has increased, on average, by 3 percent a year to an estimated 320 000 tonnes in 2018. This has largely been driven by a growing bread demand. Estimates...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Aug 26, 2018 | General Comments
South African farmers planted 28 800 hectares of sorghum in the 2017/18 production season – the smallest area on record in a dataset starting from 1936/37. This is a disappointing picture, given that sorghum was once seen as key to the development of the biofuel...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Aug 24, 2018 | General Comments
I know I shouldn’t be writing about breakfast cereals – oats – on a Friday evening, but I just saw an email enquiring about a piece I wrote in January 2017 and thought it would be good to jot down a few sentences about this crop. Unlike winter wheat production, which...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Aug 23, 2018 | General Comments
The International Grains Council has just released its monthly update report that placed South Africa’s 2018/19 wheat production at 1.8 million tonnes, up by 6 percent from last month and 20 percent higher than the previous season. This is largely on the back of...
