Bothaville, South Africa
September 21, 2005
Producers that
plan to expand or produce sunflowerseed and soybeans for the
first time, should do their homework thoroughly, says Mr Bully
Botma, Chairman of Grain
South Africa.
The Sunflower and
Soybean Specialist Working Group of Grain SA have in reaction on
the National Crop Estimation Committee’s (CEC) first intentions
to plant, urged producers to not move the current market problem
of maize to sunflowerseed and soybeans.
According to the
CEC, producers are of the intention to expand sunflower and
soybean production with 24,9 percent and 60,5 percent
respectively.
The intention to
plant for sunflowerseed is more or less in line with Grain SA
recommendation to expand plantings with ±21 percent. Although
Grain SA didn’t make a recommendation for soybean plantings for
the coming season, it was advised that producers should produce
on basis of a pre-season contract. The intention to expand by
60 percent can be problematic and is Grain SA still advising
producers to have a pre-plant contract.
Over and above the
pre-plant contracts producers must, before they plant, make sure
that price levels are of such nature that profitable production
can take place. Further, at planting time price levels should
be hedged, because of the high risks in the uncertain grain
market that we may experience in the coming season.
Produsente gemnaan om sonneblomsaad en sojaboon aanplantings
versigtig te beplan
Produsente wat
beplan om sonneblomsaad- en sojaboonproduksie in die komende
seisoen uit te brei of vir die eerste keer gaan produseer, moet
hulle huiswerk deeglik doen, sê mnr Bully Botma, Voorsitter van
Graan Suid-Afrika.
Die Sonneblom- en
Sojaboon Spesialiswerkgroep van Graan Suid-Afrika het in reaksie
op die Nasionale Oesskattings Komitee (NOK) se eerste voorneme
om te plant produsente gemaan om nie die markprobleme wat tans
met mielies ondervind word, na sonneblomsaad en sojabone oor te
skuif nie.
Volgens die NOK is
produsente van voorneme om sonneblomsaadproduksie met 24,9
persent en sojaboonproduksie met 60,5 persent uit te brei.
Die voorgenome
aanplantings vir sonneblomsaad is min of meer in lyn met Graan
Suid-Afrika se aanbeveling dat aanplantings met ±21 persent
uitgebrei kan word. Alhoewel Graan Suid-Afrika nie ‘n
aanbeveling oor sojaboon aanplantings vir die komende seisoen
gemaak het nie, was die aanbeveling dat produsente op basis van
‘n voorseisoenkontrak moet produseer. Die voorgenome 60 persent
uitbreiding kan problematies wees en bly Graan Suid-Afrika se
advies steeds dat ‘n voorplantkontrak nodig is.
Bo en behalwe die
voorplantkontrakte moet produsente, voordat hulle plant, baie
seker maak dat prysvlakke van so ‘n aard is dat produksie
winsgewend kan plaasvind. Hierdie prysvlakke moet verder met
planttyd verskans word omdat die prysrisiko’s van sonneblomsaad
en sojabone beslis in die onsekere graanmarkte wat ons in die
komende seisoen gaan ondervind, relatief groot kan wees. |