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Julie/July 2018
NWKV Nuusbrief 63 / NWGA Newsletter 63
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Inform us about events in your area or if you want to receive the newsletter. Contact Fanie van Rooyen at
082 388 0626 or send an email to fanie@agriconnect.co.za or Bonita Francis nwga@nwga.co.za or
call 041 365 5030.
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SILWER RAM-ONTVANGER VERTEL OOR MERINOBOERDERY
RSG Landbou het onlangs gesels met NWKV Mpumalanga-voorsitter, Machiel Odendaal, en sy vrou, Louise, oor die Silwer Ram-toekenning wat aan hom toegeken is tydens die NWKV se nasionale jaarkongres.
Odendaal, wat sedert 1998 op die bestuur van NWKV Mpumalanga dien, se boodskap aan jong boere was om die Merinoskaap as vertakking van hul boerdery te oorweeg en passievol aan die NWKV as bedryfsorganisasie deel te neem. “Daar is oneindigende voorligting binne die NWKV opgesluit”, het Odendaal gesê.
Kliek die skakel vir die volledige onderhoud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m4wLR-X1x4&feature=youtu.be
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OORWELDIGENDE BELANGSTELLING VIR REPRODUKSIEKURSUS IN LAINGSBURG
Douglas Calldo, streekbestuurslid, het hom goed van sy taak gekwyt met die organisering van ’n reproduksiekursus in Laingsburg, want altesaam 43 boere het belangstelling getoon en die kursus moes gevolglik oor twee dae aangebied word.
Al sewe modules is op een dag aangebied aangesien verskillende produksiesiklusse op boere se plase bedryf word. Boere het ook hul plaasarbeiders saamgebring om hulle die nodige blootstelling te gee. NWKV se produksie-adviseur, Jannie Fourie, was vol lof vir die boere wat, ondanks droogte, baie positief was en aktief aan die opleiding deelgeneem het.
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BOERE BAAT BY SKAAPHANTERINGSKURSUS
Deon Greyling van Brandfort het foto’s gestuur van sy plaasarbeiders wat besig was om boetebos uit te kap en te laai vir verbranding.
Dít kom na afloop van ’n skaaphanteringskursus wat Jan Louis Venter, NWKV Vrystaat se produksie-adviseur, vir boere en arbeiders aangebied het. Hy het verduidelik hoe nadelig boetebos vir wolproduksie is.
Greyling het sy tevredenheid met die opleiding uitgespreek en was beïndruk toe plaasarbeiders die boetebos padlangs kon identifiseer en spontaan begin uitkap het.
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WOLBOERE EN PLAASARBEIDERS BAAT BY OPLEIDING
Algoa FM het onlangs met Louis du Pisani gesels oor die 5 273 individue wat die afgelope 11 maande skeerderopleiding ontvang het, kommunale- en reproduksiekursusse bygewoon het, aan ekonomiese studiegroepe deelgeneem het enpredasiebestuurskursusse meegemaak het wat deur die NWKV Produksie-adviesdienste aangebied is.
Kliek vir die volledige onderhoud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CukHx3gTsYo&t=8s
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NWGA CHAIRMAN HEADS INTERNATIONAL GROUPING
NWGA National Chairperson Guillau du Toit is appointed as Chairperson of the International Wool Textile Council (IWTO). The council is an international forum for grower countries who are members of the IWTO.
During the IWTO’s recent congress in Hong Kong, Richard Halliday from Australia confirmed the end of his term as Chairperson and the Executive Committee approved the appointment of Du Toit, who will serve until 2020, when he can be re-elected or choose to step down.
Specific topics that were discussed at the meeting include sheep flock development programs, environmental impacts affecting wool growth (flood, droughts, predators, etc.) and risks posed to exports by disease outbreaks.
The NWGA would like to congratulate Guillau, and knows that he will fulfil this role with responsibility and distinction.
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RECORD WOOL SEASON, THANKS TO CHINA
The wool-selling season closed with the market indicators of both South Africa and Australia at record highs.
The Cape Wools Merino indicator closed at R211,99/kg (clean) – an increase of 15,5% on the opening sale and 39% higher than last season’s closing sale. In Australia the year-on-year improvements of the indicator was 34,8%.
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OMSKAKELING VAN VLEIS- NA WOLSKAAPBOERDERY
Guillau du Toit het in sy 2018 voorsittersverslag verwys na die ontwikkeling van programme wat duidelike scenarios skets van omskakeling van vleis- na wolskaapboerdery, in ag genome finansiële implikasies.
Hierdie aksies word tans suksesvol deur NWKV produksie-adviesdienste geloods om stukrag aan produsente te verleen ten einde die visie van die bedryf om meer wol te bevorder, te bewerkstellig.
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REDUCING LOSSES TO PREDATORS: ‘THIS WORKS FOR ME’
According to the scientific assessment for predator control, to be released and launched soon, one of the outcomes relates to the fact that there is no silver bullet solution to predator management. We are asking some farmers to share those practices which prove successful under their farming conditions and circumstances.
For Swithan Webster, who farms in the Queenstown district on the farm Rookwood, the only way to perform predator management is by using netted fences. About 60% of his farm is now netted with approximately 20 km of netted fencing.
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TOP FEMALE FARMER AN ASSET TO WOOL INDUSTRY
A hearty congratulations to Nolie Olivia Sigidi who was announced the winner in the 2018 Female Entrepreneur Awards of the Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape.
The trophy was awarded to her during a ceremony in East London on 19 July. Sigidi was recognised in the smallholder category and will compete on a provincial level in the first week of August. Sigidi is an active participant in the structures of the NWGA and serves the communal and emergent farmers in various capacities.
Well done to Sigidi! The NWGA believes in your hardworking abilities, skills and perseverance to climb the ladder of this competition. All the best!
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NOORD-KAAP STREEKBYEENKOMS BARS UIT SY NATE
Die Noord-Kaapse wolkwekers het die geleentheid gebruik om hul jaarlikse streekbyeenkoms saam met die Phillipstown Jongooi-interskou aan te bied. Diederik Vermeulen, NWKV Noord-Kaap bestuurslid, het sy plaas Vrede in die Phillipstown-distrik beskikbaar gestel en in ekspo-styl omskep om al die uitstallers die nodige blootstelling te gee. Verskeie borge het ingekoop en BKB en die NWKV Noord-Kaap was die grootste borge.
Vermeulen is erken vir sy harde werk en toewyding binne die Noord-Kaapse NWKV en’n merietesertifikaat is aan hom oorhandig .
Die NWKV se Noord-Kaapse voorsitter, Fanie Dippenaar, het gefokus op die beleid van die provinsie, naamlik om as georganiseerde landbou by die boer en veral die jongboer betrokke te raak en hul sigbaarheid te verhoog deur ondersteuning te verleen en kennis na die boer op die plaas te bring.
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