New models replace 240 series as flagship combines for 2019 / AFS Harvest Command™ automation minimises losses and grain damage, maximises output / Feedrate control system adapts key machine elements to crop volume / Grain camera continuously analyses quality / Sieve pressure sensor technology and auto fan speed maintain ideal pressure as conditions change,.

In a letter to the Group Chief Executive of Eskom, the president of TAU SA, Mr Louis Meintjes, expresses his serious concerns about the impact of load shedding on commercial agriculture.

Agri SA will continue to pursue all credible avenues to protect the interests of farmers and farming communities, including challenging an amendment of section 25 in court. Decision by parliament is not the final step in the process, and there is time and legal remedies remaining to halt an amendment.

Subsequent to a decline from 54 to 48 points in the third quarter of 2018, the Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confidence Index weakened further to 42 in the last quarter of the year. 

The AGXTEND range of breakthrough precision farming technologies will provide agricultural equipment users with exclusive productivity and efficiency enhancing solutions which simultaneously deliver sustainability gains, and they will be available through the New Holland dealer network.

The European Union and FAO along with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Program (WFP) signed US $14m deal in a bid to tackle global food security. The agreements were finalized by EU Commissioner in charge of International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, and FAO Director-General, Jose Graziano da Silva.