by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 4, 2017 | News, The ByLine, Travel
A few upcoming international tours of interest, gleaned from the recent IFAJ newsletter. By Kurt Lawton, AAEA International Committee Chair Switzerland – September 22-25 Food Security, Free Trade and Sustainability press tour in Lucerne, Switzerland, it...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 4, 2017 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
Big hearted, tough skinned farmers In South Africa, entrepreneurial go-getters thrive despite uncertain economic, political climate By Mike Wilson, AAEA Immediate Past President You think you have it tough running a farm business? Try doing it in South...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Jun 9, 2017 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Gregg Hillyer, DTN/The Progressive Farmer It’s been 23 years since the end of apartheid, but fallout from racial segregation continues to cast its long shadow on many non-white South Africans. A lack of education, literacy and technical skills means low-paying jobs...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Jun 2, 2017 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Greg Lamp, CHS Inc. A dangerous country, razor wire and electric fences surround farmsteads, hotels, businesses and often even homes. From one end of South Africa to the other, the landscape changes almost mile by mile and so does agriculture. From raising...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | May 19, 2017 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned, Writing
By Lilian Schaer, Agri-Food Project Services Ltd. This is one of my favourite shots from a morning game drive in Kruger National Park, one of Africa’s largest game reserves at approximately 4.8 million acres and home to the Big Five: lions, leopards,...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | May 5, 2017 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Jessie Scott, AAEA InfoExpo Chair “South African farming is not for sissies.” When I first heard that line from a farmer in Delmas, Gauteng, a northern province in South Africa, I chuckled at the bluntness of the line as well as the subtle insinuation that...
