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Last week I commented quite positively on China’s offer to lower tariffs on a range of products from Africa.
South Africa’s 2025-26 winter crop harvest process is virtually over. This crop was planted in May 2025. The focus in the country is now on the 2025-26 summer crop season, which is still at its early stages, having been planted from…
Focus should be deliberate attempt to support new cohort of individual commercial farmers
Columnist Wandile Sihlobo looks back at 2025 in agriculture and makes predictions for 2026
US senator John Kennedy has introduced a new bill to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) for two years, which would explicitly exclude SA.
SA’s agricultural exports have remained strong since the start of the year despite significant trade policy shifts and uncertainty.
Wandile Sihlobo's column about challenges facing the Eastern Cape
October 16th marks World Food Day, a celebration of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945.
At the start of this year, SA’s department of agriculture, along with organised agriculture, agribusinesses and research groups in agriculture, established the Agricultural Conditions Assessment Committee of SA (ACAC), housed under the…
SA’s agricultural sector is in what some would consider a relatively quiet period, before the busy season starts again in a few weeks.
SA’s maize industry is export-orientated. Over the past five years, the country has exported roughly three million tonnes annually.
In a year where trade continues to dominate headlines after the US started imposing higher tariffs against its trading partners, we take a look at SA’s recent agricultural exports data to gauge the early impact of the changing environment.
It always helps to assess how the farming conditions are going for our neighbouring province.
We do not emphasise enough the critical role of exports in driving SA’s agricultural growth.
We continue to see an encouraging outlook for the 2025-26 global grains and oilseeds production.
