A group of Executives and Grain SA staff members took an aerial survey of the North West Free State and the North West Province early this morning. “The summer grains (maize, sunflower and soya beans) are in a critical stage and the next fourteen days will determine the fate of South African food prices over the next 12 months,” Jannie de Villiers, CEO of Grain SA, said today. The extreme heat and dry conditions caused the crop to deteriorate much faster than expected. “We have seen large areas where the damage is already irreversible,” De Villiers reported. We have seen […]