agriculture
Monday March 12th, 2018
Highlights in today’s morning note Maize: The new season maize crop is generally in good condition following recent rainfall […]
Monday March 19th, 2018
Highlights in today’s morning note Maize: The rainfall has been erratic in the past few days over the maize […]
Tuesday March 27th, 2018
Highlights in today’s morning note Maize: The recent rainfall caused some level of optimism in the maize growing regions […]
Tuesday April 3rd, 2018
One factor that we are watching closely over the long weekend is weather as it could still affect the soybean crop, both late-planted and on-time-planted areas. In the last week of March 2018, there were fears that the rainfall could cause crop damage, as a large part of the crop has already matured.
Monday April 9th, 2018
South Africa’s wheat import tariff has been revised to R394.85 per tonne, which is a 45% decline from the previous rate of R716.33 per tonne. This new duty was calculated on the 13 February 2017 following an upsurge of the international wheat prices.
Tuesday April 10th, 2018
In the context of the ongoing US-China trade dispute, with China threatening to place a 25 percent duty of US soybean, it is worth highlighting the strong linkages of these nations’ soybean markets.