AGRICULTURE NEWS - South Africa’s summer grain harvesting is progressing well in the 2021/2022 marketing season, with maize harvesting in particular being completed at a much faster rate than at the same time last year.
This was according to Luan van der Walt, Grain SA (GSA) economist, who ascribed this to the fact that producers were able to plant considerably earlier than the previous three years.
This was due to the good and timeous rainfall received in the 2020/2021 production season.
During the previous three seasons, producers had been forced to plant as late as the end of January.
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