Grain SA's 52nd NAMPO Harvest Day is taking place from 15-18 May 2018 at NAMPO Park, just outside Bothaville. Themed "Efficiency with Technology" the biggest agricultural show in the Southern hemisphere will be a highlight on this year's agricultural calendar.

Members' e-mail instructions have been sent with the necessary links to print your exclusive entry tickets. If you have not yet received your tickets, please contact Elray de Klerk on 086 004 7246 or elray@grainsa.co.za.

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The Grain SA Congress, which took place on 7 and 8 March 2018 at NAMPO Park was a huge success of which you can read more in the April edition of the SA Graan/Grain. Until then, take a look at a brief snapshot of the 2-day highlight on the Grain SA calendar. Access the Congress gallery below.

Prof Mohammad Karaan, Agricultural Economist addressed the 2018 Grain SA Congress on the Policy Environment for Future Sustainable Commercial and Developing Grain Production.

The video of the discussion can be viewed below

Brand Pretorius, retired Chief Executive of McCarthy Limited delivered a motivational address to congress delegates on leadership.

The video of the discussion can be viewed below

BVG in partnership with Landbou.com, Landbouweekblad, JSE, BKBGrainCo, BVG and Grain SA launched the 2018 Fantasy Hedging Competition and now is the time to get those profiles active and the transactions going. 

Remember, in addition to the prizes up for grabs, Grain SA will be sponsoring an additional R10 000 to the Grain SA member who comes first. Endeavouring to offer users the best possible experience, BVG has made improvements to the trading software to ensure a more realistic trading experience and new functionality has been built where participants can enter their orders which will be executed once the price gets to their trigger price. The finalists will be announced during NAMPO Harvest Day, with the winner's announcement taking place later in the year at a prestigious gala event.

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Move with the times

Inventive producers again have the opportunity to demonstrate modified agricultural equipment. The purpose of the Boerepatente (Farmers’ patent) competition is to encourage producers with original ideas, to share the equipment that they built for special use or with a view of finding solutions
for problems they encountered on the farm. This will lead to general and greater efficiency and comfort on the farm.

Producers participating in the Farmers' Patents Competition presented during Grain SA's NAMPO Harvest Day (15-18 May 2018) can also collect R10,000 for their farmers' association or study group this year. Any paid-up member of a farmers' association or study group who enrolls a farm patent under categories A to D, will automatically form part of the judging for this additional prize.

Videos of patents, in any of the categories, will also be accepted as entry this year. 

Click here to download the official entry form