South Africa: Emerging States' Farmers Make Hay as Lean Years Loom - Business Day

THERE is nothing to counter high prices like high prices, Ernst Janovsky, the head of agribanking at Absa, likes to say in response in to concern about record prices in agricultural commodities.

Author: Think about it

Good to remove subsidies,this applies to any form of subsidization in any arena they distort figures in such a way as to become unreliable,and turn things into a guessing game. It is amazing that 10 times more maize that SA produces will be used for ethonol in the USA alone and nobody clicks, food first,then fuel.



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