Tag: emerging farmers
Emerging cattle farmers tackle challenges through co-operative
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
The challenge of making genetic progress in beef cattle breeding in a communal area where hundreds of cows and...
Potatoes SA crowns second Enterprise Development Farmer
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Aldrin Lawrence, a potato farmer from Buysdorp in Limpopo, has been crowned the second Enterprise Development Farmer of the...
Jan Masiu: Building a family business
For Jan Masiu, who used to earn his living as a farm worker in the Marquard area of the Free State for most of...
Piet Mothepu: Creating a legacy as a cattle farmer
Piet Mothepu and his wife, Maria, have been farming on Kirkdale in the Koppies area of the Free State for three years.
“I am renting...
Targeted support for farmers: The value of accurate data
Most South Africans realise the importance of a prosperous, representative agricultural sector. It should be a socio-political and economic priority, promotes a stable society,...
The Mohair Empowerment Trust: Relationships that empower
The Mohair Empowerment Trust emphasises the importance of commercial farmers’ involvement in all of the projects it takes on. It relies on the mentorship...
Champion farmer’s support plan for emerging farmers
In 2019 Rego Malao was crowned SA Stud Book and Unistel’s Emerging Stud Farmer of the Year. With his farming enterprise growing by leaps...
