This week’s events include two livestock sales, the Gauteng Undercover Farming Conference, 2024 wine harvest celebrations, and Cannabis Expo preparations. To include your event in the calendar, please email info@foodformzansi.co.za.
Hey Mzansi!
We’ve got an exciting week ahead!
We’ll start off the week with livestock auctions in Badplaas, Mpumalanga, and Beaufort West in the Western Cape, happening on Monday and Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the Gauteng Undercover Farming Conference takes place, followed by 2024 harvest celebrations in the Western Cape on Thursday.
On Friday, you can save the date for the Cannabis Expo 2024 happening in Cape Town.
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Monday, 4 March
The Karoo Angora sale
On offer:
Angoras:
- 60 Angora rams
- 50 Angora rams (silent auction)
- 700 Kapaters (2T)
- 500 Kapaters (4-6T)
- 100 Angora kid ewes
- 400 Angora ewes (2T)
- 300 Angora ewes (4T-full mouth)
Merinos
- 20 Merino rams
- 400 Merino ewes (2T)
- 100 Merino ewes (full mouth)
Time: 11:00
Venue: Baakensrug, Beaufort West
Tuesday, 5 March
Badplaas livestock sale
All types of livestock are welcome!
Conditions of sale:
- Only card, cash, or immediate electronic payments day of sale
- 1% Handling fee on cash/card payments.
- Electronic transfer facilities.
- Fica documentation with the registration process. All goods will be sold at a reserve price and the right exists to bid by or on behalf of the owner or auctioneer.
Time: 11:00
Venue: Badplaas Auction Complex
Wednesday, 6 March
Gauteng Undercover Farming Conference and Expo
The Undercover Farming Conference focuses on existing and potential producers, and buyers of vegetables, flowers, fruit, and seedlings being produced under protective cover (shade-net). Tunnel and shade-net farming is an ever-expanding form of food production in South Africa, and offers a solution to the increasingly arid climate and climate change through the effective use and or recycling of water with the least evaporation.
Time: 8:00
Venue: CSIR international convention centre, Gauteng
Thursday, 7 March
2024 Harvest celebrations
You can expect: an open-air dinner celebration, live jazz band, seasonal family-style dinner served for the table to share, and wine pairing with award-winning Longridge Wines.
A seasonal three-course, sharing-style menu will be served in the evening. Most dietary requirements can be catered for if notified when booking via Dineplan.
Time: 18:00
Venue: Rykaart’s Restaurant at Longridge Wine Estate, Somerset West
Friday, 8 March
Prepare for the Cannabis Expo
Set your calendar for the Cannabis Expo. It is the global marketplace for education innovative products and businesses serving the cannabis industry and its medicinal, agricultural, financial, and lifestyle aspects. The cannabis industry is exploding, and the Cannabis Expo provides the perfect platform for international and local medical health professionals, agricultural providers, and lifestyle brands to engage with industry experts and the public around this versatile plant.
Date: 22 – 24 March 2024
Time: 9:00
Venue: Cape Town ICC
Click here for more information.
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