Wheat under flood pays
Over the years, farmers in the north-western Cape perfected a system of flooding sowing dams when rivers brought water from distant catchments, as this article detailed.
When rain or snow falls in Fraserburg and Sutherland in the Northern Cape and Beaufort West in the Western Cape, sheep farmers in the north-western Cape begin to grease their tractors in preparation for wheat planting.
Once the rivers in the north-western Cape begin to flow, there is no rest for several weeks as
