This must be a challenging year for the animal feed companies and by extension the livestock and poultry industry.

 The move to ‘level 1’ of the lockdown is a welcome step from a broader macroeconomic perspective, as this ensures that economic activity in the country continues to normalize gradually across more sectors of the economy.

Regular readers of this blog may remember that on Mondays, I provide an update of South Africa’s weekly grain data, also at times with a highlight of various events in the agricultural data calendar for the week ahead.

“It is important to realise that the South African economy was already in a recession before the lockdown was implemented by the government.

This morning’s blog post is co-authored with fellow agricultural economist, Tinashe Kapuya

Some analysts, myself included, did not anticipate that the 2019/20 harvest and agricultural performance would be as robust as we have witnessed.