by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 24, 2020 | Daily Notes
The Western Cape, which is a major producer of South Africa’s winter crops – wheat, barley and canola – has had favourable rainfall over the past couple of months and the crop in the province is in good shape. The benefit of the rainfall is even clear on dam levels in...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 22, 2020 | Daily Notes
The move to ‘level 1’ of the lockdown is a welcome step from a broader macroeconomic perspective, as this ensures that economic activity in the country continues to normalize gradually across more sectors of the economy. Within agriculture, the only segment that will...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 21, 2020 | Daily Notes
This must be a challenging year for the animal feed companies and by extension the livestock and poultry industry. The years of a large harvest like the 2019/20 season are typically followed by a notable decline in commodity prices which is beneficial to the livestock...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 21, 2020 | Daily Notes
Regular readers of this blog may remember that on Mondays, I provide an update of South Africa’s weekly grain data, also at times with a highlight of various events in the agricultural data calendar for the week ahead. With a data calendar for the week ahead fairly...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 17, 2020 | Daily Notes
At the outset of the Covid-19 lockdown, agriculture and the food sector were classified as essential services to avoid disrupting the nation’s food supply. But there were always concerns about whether the agricultural value chains and logistics could work efficiently...
