harvest
Friday March 23rd, 2018
South African Agricultural Commodities Weekly Wrap Following a week of dryness in most parts of South Africa, the weather […]
Monday March 26th, 2018
(Afrikaans) SA’s Agriculture: Immediate, short, to medium-term view
Friday April 6th, 2018
Trade aspects remain an important factor in the market as South Africa is a net importer of wheat. The wheat import tariff has triggered again on 20 March 2018 to R293.74 per tonne. The previous trigger was on 13 February 2018, which then, was calculated at R394.85 per tonne.
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.
Wednesday April 11th, 2018
There is generally some optimism in the South African maize market following good rainfall received in the past few weeks. Last night, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) lifted its estimate for South Africa’s 2017/18 maize production by 200 000 tonnes from last month to 13.2 million tonnes.
Monday April 16th, 2018
Drier and warm weather conditions have kept the US wheat on the back foot. On 08 April 2018, farmers had planted only 2 percent of the intended area for spring wheat, well below the area planted at the corresponding period last year, according to data from the USDA.