Ockert Botha News Today

Country living can offer a more nuanced life, serenity and spiritual enrichment, reconnection and rediscovery. But it’s not all beer and skittles out here in the sticks.

Where else but the Karoo will you find such a treasure of classic architecture, sweeping style and good, old-fashioned country church legends?

Future farmers will insist on data-sharing among service providers, predicts consultancy “I can well see how farmers in five years’ time will insist on interaction between data providers, service providers and consultants visiting their farms,” says Coenraad Fraenkel, CEO of Agrimotion Consulting, soon to be based at the University of Stellenbosch’s AgroHub at Welgevallen experimental farm, where they are the only commercial consultancy present amid leading research institutes. Luan le ...