I have been in irrigated farming in southern Africa since 1968 and have never seen a profitable beef project on irrigation pastures. Dairy and dorper sheep yes. and when the bod mentions the improvement in the calving % without stating the new % I did some thinking and took my loss and switched to AGQ. An impossible weaning % of 100% will still not be profitable. In Africa the weaning % is important with wild animals taking a %.
Interesting to here where you are going in the cape Verde . Sailed there in 2011 stayed in Mindola harbor. Interesting place no KFC or Big Macs available- great.
All seems gloom and doom for steel but Port Elizabeth harbor is for ever loading bulk carries with manganese and scrap iron, which can be described as feo it is so rusty. My yacht is black from ore dust.
I also thought it good. But in my experience in Afri agric beef production on irrigated pastures does not pay. All we are doing here is give the directors a good life in the sun, game fishing and hunting.
I have said it before and if any pi has the ear of the co. it would be interesting to here their comments on this. Is irrigation water pumped or gravity fed.
I have been here 4 years and lost lots. I wonder if I should take the loss and make it up else where.
B sell moz to zambeef and West Africa to a tropical agric co . All with directors that gamble their own money in the casino not share holders money in oil!
The bod must be hard up to get agric management or they employ pals. What use is a sugar cane expert with cattle? and maize. sugar cane is a highly specialized branch of agric and so are cattle.
Compared with other co's the BOD of this have very little invested in it. Are we just paying for their good life, tuna fishing of the coast and hunting cos these farms must be teaming with buck lion etc.