December 2024 / January 2025
Eenvormigheid vermeerder wins
“Ons doel is die konsekwente produksie van vrugte wat die beste pryse sal behaal,” het Craig Hornblow gesê.
December 2024 / January 2025
Oak Valley
Oak Valley opted for the relatively unknown G.778 when establishing a 1.2-hectare Granny Smith orchard on an old pear site in 2021. “It’s not the best soil, so we decided to try
December 2024 / January 2025
Glen Fruin
Bigbucks established at 3.5 x 1.0 metres was the only M.9 orchard featured during the 2022 Hortgro pome-fruit field day. The 0.4-hectare block was planted in 2018.
December 2024 / January 2025
Elgin Orchards
A cumulative yield of 300 tonnes per hectare is one of the milestones in an orchard’s life – top performers achieve this by the fifth or sixth leaf. But a 2022 Hortgro field-day block at Elgin Orchards has expanded our conception of the possible by surpassing the 300-tonne benchmark in the fourth leaf.
December 2024 / January 2025
De Rust
Die 2022 Hortgro kernvrugvelddagboord by De Rust is nege hektaar Lady in Red op G.778 wat teen 3.5 x 1.25 meter in 2020 gevestig is. Die kumulatiewe opbrengs teen vierde blad was 206.5 ton per hektaar. “Ons mikpunt was 200 ton per hektaar teen die vyfde jaar,” sê produksiebestuurder Jacques van Dyk.
December 2024 / January 2025
Revisiting the 2022 Hortgro Pome-fruit Field Day orchards
Four apple orchards in Elgin were showcased at the 2022 Hortgro Pome-fruit Field Day – three on G.778 and one on M.9. They were featured in the Oct/Nov ‘22 SAFJ. The following series of articles revisits them to learn how these orchards are coming along. For more on apple rootstocks, visit www.freshquarterly.co.za to download a free copy of Hortgro’s technical magazine for growers.
October / November 2024
Optimale tafeldruif-verpakking
Navorsing help produsente om tafeldruif-verpakking te kies wat houvermoë verleng en kwaliteit handhaaf. Deur Anna Mouton Binneverpakking is onontbeerlik vir die lewering van ’n topgehalte produk aan ons tafeldruifmarkte. Maar dit kan moeilik wees om die beste kombinasie van plastiekbinnesakke…
October / November 2024
’n Nieu-Seelandse perspektief op boordstelsels
Ontwerp boorde wat eenvoudig, nou, toeganklik, produktief en blywend is. Deur Anna Mouton “Boordstelsels gaan nie oor wat ons tans weet nie,” het hortologiese konsultant Craig Hornblow gesê. “Elke keer wat ons ’n boom plant, plant ons met die geloof…
October / November 2024
Bergsig
An eighth-leaf block on MM.109 at Kromfontein’s Bergsig site is the top-performing Cripps Red orchard at Dutoit Agri in the Western Cape. By Anna Mouton “Kromfontein is the first farm that Dutoit Agri owned in the Koue Bokkeveld – everything…
October / November 2024
Disselfontein
A Celina orchard on BP1 completes its first season under protective netting. By Anna Mouton Donkerbos Estate purchased Disselfontein in the Koue Bokkeveld in 2012 as part of a Black Economic Empowerment initiative. Eyethu Intaba, a project of Witzenberg PALS…
October / November 2024
Bronaar
Fuji Royal op M.9 onder nette behaal uitpakke van meer as 90% in tweede en derde blad. Deur Anna Mouton Bronaar beslaan ongeveer 250 hektaar appels en pere wat oor vyf aangrensende plase in die Koue Bokkeveld versprei is. Hulle…
October / November 2024
Hortgro Pome-fruit Field Day 2024
More than 250 participants braved the June rains to visit five orchards in the Koue Bokkeveld. The articles in this package describe four of the field-day orchards: Bigbucks and Lady in Red on M.9 and Cripps Red on MM.109 at…