as he surveyed his crops on a recent scorcher of a day.
Tom van Rooyen’s 100-hectare section of farmland that he keeps for beans has been left uncultivated because it was too wet at sowing time. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla Poultry producer Astral Foods said on 25 January that it expected its earnings for the six months to 31 March 2023 to fall as much as 90%. Aside from record-high feed costs, the company cited “devastating levels of load shedding and the general decay of municipal infrastructure”.
South African farmers have had bumper crops recently thanks to La Niña and innovations such as the adoption of precision farming.
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