WandileSihlobo
Apr 20, 2018
(English) The weather remains a key focus in the local agricultural market but could have a different impact on crops than the past couple of weeks.
Apr 23, 2018
The weather is a primary focus in the South African wheat market as the winter wheat planting period approaches. The Western Cape province, which is a leading winter wheat producing province experienced persistent dryness in the past few months, therefore soil moisture is extremely low across the fields.
The province needs to receive intense and persistent rainfall for soil moisture to improve, which will, therefore, add momentum to the planting process. However, the near-term weather forecasts present more of the same, which is cool and dry weather conditions across the province with the exception of the western areas which could receive light showers of between 16 and 25 millimetres in the week of 25 April 2018.
Apr 25, 2018
Although canola and oats farmers have started planting in parts of the Western Cape province and wheat set to commence soon, the germination process could be slightly delayed. The near-term weather forecast point to a continuous dryness in the Western Cape province within the next two weeks.
Apr 26, 2018
The next eight days should remain cool and dry over the soybean growing areas, which should be supportive of the harvest process. This is at initial stages in parts of the Mpumalanga province, and it could soon commence in other provinces as a large part of the crop has already matured.Agbiz Morning Market Viewpoint on Agri-Commodities 26 April 2018.
Apr 26, 2018
South Africa is in for a fairly good harvest in 2017/18 production season. This was confirmed by the third production forecasts released by the National Crop Estimate Committee this afternoon. All summer crop production estimates were revised up from previous month’s levels, with the exception of dry beans. In the same vein, winter crop farmers intend to increase the area plantings this upcoming season.
May 2, 2018
South Africa’s soybean and oilcake (meal) imports could decline by 27 percent and 17 percent year-on-year in the 2018/19 marketing year, to 20 000 tonnes and 458 992 tonnes, respectively. This is underpinned by an expected harvest of 1.4 million tonnes of soybeans in the 2017/18 production season.