Markets

The weather was a key focus this week (ending 12 October 2018), not only because the 2018/2019 summer grain planting window recently opened in...

The mohair market remained unchanged on the penultimate sale of the 2018 summer season compared to the previous sale. The market was well supported...

The focus in the domestic maize market is shifting towards the 2018/2019 production season which commences next month (October). Between October 2018 and February...

Wandile Sihlobo, head of economic and agribusiness intelligence at Agbiz, shares highlights in his update on agricultural commodity markets. Maize: Last week’s (ending 2 March 2018)...

Few currencies matched the rand’s turbulence in 2017.  Trumpenomics, the firing of finance minister Pravin Gordhan and the appointment of Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC...

On Monday (8 October 2018), we painted a somewhat optimistic picture regarding the weather outlook this year, basing our opinion on the South African...

In 2016, the blueberry and cranberry market reached 1.4K tons, growing by +8.4% per year over the last nine years. After a notable 21%...

In the past couple of weeks, our writing on the wheat market largely focussed on the Western Cape for two reasons. Firstly, the Western...

Soos oudergewoonte het prof Johan Willemse van die Universiteit van die Vrystaat se kwartaallikse landboumark-vooruitsigtewerkswinkel produsente van heinde en ver gelok. Die werkswinkel is...

The wool market traded lower at this week’s auction and the Cape Wools Merino Indicator decreased by 3,8% and by 892 points to close...