Mar 29, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, EC Industrial & Business News
LEADING supplier Bearings International (BI) is due to unveil a range of new products for the agricultural industry at Grain SA’s NAMPO Harvest Day from 14 to 17 May in Bothaville in the Free State. Product Offer Manager Victor Strobel said the fact that BI had...
Mar 29, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Transport & Logistics
SOVEREIGN Foods, the third largest poultry producer in South Africa, recently announced the merger of Sovereign Foods with the Cold Storage Group (CSG), an Eastern Cape wholesaler of poultry and value-added poultry products. CSG comprises five inter-related...
Mar 29, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Automation & Robotics, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry
AGRIGULTURE-focussed tech start-up, Aerobotics has expanded its Series A funding round from $2 million (R29 million). The funding round expansion came through a signed deal with Paper Plane Ventures and brings Aerobotics total funding to $4.6 million. The Cape Town...
Mar 29, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, EC Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
TODAY, most machinery available on the market is good but what differentiates a brand is the company itself and the level of service it delivers. That’s according to Natie Ferreira, co-owner of BF Hire, who said this was the reason he and his partner Marius Brink had...
Mar 29, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage
SOVEREIGN Foods, the third largest poultry producer in South Africa, has announced the acquisition of the Blue Hills hatchery in Midrand. The hatchery was previously known as Hyline Africa which was a commercial layer grandparent facility. Sovereign’s expansion began...
Mar 27, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Commerce & Trade, Finance & Investment, KZN Industrial & Business News
As expected, the latest Crop Estimates Committee’s (CEC) production estimate report showed an upward revision to the February estimate for maize to 10.56 million tons. This follows good rains since early January that stimulated farmers to increase the pace of...
Mar 20, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Finance & Investment, Government & Municipal
LAND reform in South Africa will not take place at the expense of growth and job creation – the two most important issues on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s agenda. That’s according to agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo, speaking at the third CGA Citrus Summit held in...
Mar 8, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Automation & Robotics, Education & Training, Forestry, Pulp & Paper, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, KZN Industrial & Business News, Petrochemicals, Transport & Logistics
At a recent SAIMC Durban branch presentation, Hennie Prinsloo and John Owen-Ellis provided an introduction to what is required to design a complete analytical system. It started with an overview of the large quantity of information that is needed, and then took the...
Mar 6, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Automotive, Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News
THE increase in the price of petrol at 74 cents a litre and diesel around 91 cents a litre, will have a severe impact on the cash flow of farmers. That’s according to Dawie Maree, Head of Information and Marketing at FNB Agribusiness, who said that fuel and diesel...
