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South Africa’s maize harvest progress and quality issues | SA News

South African farmers and farmworkers are hard at work across the country. The maize farmers are busy harvesting the 2024-25 crop. In the week of June 13, 2025, South African farmers delivered 851,814 tonnes of the new season maize to commercial silos. This was the seventh delivery for the new season, bringing the overall maize deliveries so far to 3,3 million tonnes.

If you compare this with the overall volume delivered during the same period in the last season, the current volumes are down 46% due to the season’s slow start. We are roughly a month behind compared to the typical harvest pace, as we faced some weather challenges at the beginning of the season.

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