2017 Tru-Cape Packhouse Challenge next Saturday in Grabouw
The Tru-Cape Packhouse Challenge 2017, an inter-packhouse trail running competition, is set for next week, Saturday, August 26. Teams from Western Cape packhouses will include Two-a-Day, Ceres Fruit Growers, Kromco, APL and Fruitways as well as a team from event sponsor
CFG sustainability efforts bear fruit
The sustainability efforts of one of the largest employers in the area, Ceres Fruit Growers, is bearing fruit saving the environment and the bottom line in the process. Wholly owned by the growers in the region, Ceres Fruit Growers is a
Successful black growers means social harmony and food security for the future.
There is good news as Ceres growers embrace land reform as a positive step towards social harmony. Four generations of Wolfaardts have toiled the land on Verdun, in Prince Alfred Hamlet, near Ceres in the Western Cape. Although stone fruit
WaterWise instruction the best defence against farm-dam drownings.
The hot summers and prominence of dams on apple and pear farms make for a deadly combination in the rural growing regions of the Western Cape. According to The National Sea Rescue Institute, (NSRI), many more children drown in dams
Integrated Pest Management among the keys to reducing the use of pesticides
When German consumer pressure groups first lobbied supermarkets at the turn of the 21 century to reduce the use of chemicals used in managing the pests in the crops they sold, that pressure distilled all the way to the apple
