Fruit industry to offer Covid vaccinations.
According to Agri Western Cape, Chief Executive, Jannie Strydom, the collaboration between public health and the private sector to provide vaccination sites is seen as a confirmation of the willingness of the agricultural sector to assist in the prevention and
Startling pattern on a Pink Lady apple
Just 10 days into a new job at Ceres Fruit Growers, Quality Assurance Co-ordinator, Melinda Christodoulides, experienced an extremely rare occurrence: a perfectly etched image of a branch and a leaf on a Pink Lady apple. She explains: “Red apples need
CNN Marketplace Africa features Tru-Cape
Tru-Cape has been featured by CNN Marketplace Africa. "How this South African apples and pears company grew its social media presence Increasing demand from Europe and Asia has pushed South African fruit giant Tru-Cape to expand variety. The company's managing director, Roelf
Tru-Cape grower says his faith has helped him cope
The last years have been challenging for one and all but, for Andre Cloete, a Tru-Cape apple and pear grower, near Greyton in the Western Cape’s Overberg region, it has been especially hard. “My wife Charmaine died after suffering with cancer
Hat-trick year for the founder of FLASH GALA ™ who now has two new Fuji strains too.
For most in the fruit growing community the discovery of just one commercially viable strain is a dream. It might be globally unheard of for one man to discover three new strains - each awarded Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBR) -
Spreading a love of reading along with an apple a day.
Have you heard the phrase: Ask a busy person if you want to get the job done? Pam Sue-Taylor, of Sonstraal Heights, Durbanville, lives up to that maxim as an executive assistant at a local media and television production company,
Agriculture is one of the few industries that can be left to future generations.
If you plant an apple or pear tree today you might have to wait up to five years before you see the first fruit and up to seven years before the tree is in full production. This means that money
Christel Fortuin is a star in the making.
Now that the rains have returned to the Boland, the farm road leading to the office at Lakeview Farm is muddy and the previously scorched and thirsty earth is now ready for the next crop of fruit. The nearby Theewaterskloof
The Tru-Cape Eselfontein MTB 2018 is in Ceres from October 12.
The most affordable MTB Challenge in the Western Cape is at Eselfontein in Ceres and is just around the corner. The three-stage Eselfontein MTB challenge starts on Friday October 12 with a gruelling night race, the main races are on
Boyes and Tunstead Victorious at the fundraising 2018 BUCO Karoo to Coast
The 2018 BUCO Karoo to Coast, supported by Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, was won by Craig Boyes and Pauline Tunstead in remarkably different fashions, on Sunday the 23rd of September. Boyes held off his breakaway companions in a sprint for the
