What are your thoughts on South Africa's agriculture sector? What impressed you and what was worrying?
South Africa is like every other place in the world: it has assets and liabilities. A perfect agricultural environment doesn't exist anywhere on the planet, so you have to leverage your resources and mitigate your deficiencies.
Flying from Cape Town to East London, I was struck by the brown fields: no different from the grain-growing regions of the US. These fields need cover crops desperately to keep a covering on the soil. Nothing destroys soil faster than being naked.
The few cattle I've seen have been left to graze continuously rather than being mob-stocked. This also gradually depletes the vegetation, turning good plants into poor plants. It reduces overall biomass production.
I'm impressed with your water and warmth. Much
