FREE DECEMBER 2016 • JANUARY 2017 SENWES EQUIPMENT AND JOHN DEERE’S GATOR WINNER Senwes Equipment and JCB – A perfect match Win with Nation in Conversation FOCUS ON Welkom & Odendaalsrus An introduction to OneAgri CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY. SPECIAL OFFERS REDUCED RATES POSTPONED INSTALMENTS *Terms and conditions apply My choice, my Senwes. At Senwes Equipment we know what our clients want and we make sure that they get it. As the exclusive John Deere dealer we guarantee your access to the latest developments. PLEASEWe ensure CONTACTthat you have YOUR the best that money has to oer. NEAREST SENWES EQUIPMENT BRANCH FOR MORE INFO. CONTENTS ••••••• 8 31 4 CONTENTS EDITOR'S LETTER 20 Management of variables in a 2 It is raining! farming system with the assistance ON THE COVER PAGE of precision farming WHAT A YEAR 2016 has been for GENERAL 23 Meet Estelle ‘Senwes’ the newly established trademark of 3 Cartoon: Pieter & Tshepo 25 Herman is your Senwes Man – Senwes Equipment! With prize upon 3 Heard all over A grain marketing advisor with the prize they really created a Christmas 15 Christmas messages full package spirit. 26 How the handling of grain On the front page we have Gert MAIN ARTICLE changed over time? Part I 4 JCB and Senwes Equipment: A (Gerlu) Roos from Wonderfontein, 28 Branch manager Potchefstroom who won the second leg of the WIN perfect match! – Ruan brings colour to Potch BIG with Senwes Equipment and John Deere competition in Novem- 30 Utilise our Digital Platforms AREA FOCUS ber. In the process he won a John in an optimal manner 8 Welkom and Odendaalsrus Deere Gator 855D to the value of – In Circles! 46 Gert Roos wins R230 000 John R230 000, a wonderful gift, just in Deere Gator 855D time for Christmas. Read more about IN THE SPOTLIGHT this winner on page 46. 12 Uys van Heerden holds the fort at COLUMNS this farmhouse 34 Safex Scenarios with Susari In turn, Amanda Haasbroek won a R10 000 John Deere clothing voucher 37 Agritips NEWS in the first leg. Charl Fourie won the 38 Grain market prospects 04 Download the Senwes Interim R80 000 Mauritius holiday in the third leg and he will be enjoying this trip Results HERE! 42 Come rain or shine during the holiday period with his 4 Senwes supports Agri Securitas 47 On target wife, Raisa. Christmas is in the air! 6 Senwes producer very positive 49 Where there's a will there's a way about AgriRewards 50 Future focus 18 Senwes emerging farmers 53 Food for thought http://fwd2.co/ScenarioApple honoured by Grain SA 54 Garden tips 28 Know your Certisure Broker – Nico van den Heever COMPETITIONS 33 Imperial Isuzu Truck Centre: 54 Win with Hannon Official truck sponsor of Nation in 56 Win a copy of Jou http://fwd2.co/ScenarioGoogle Conversation TV series voetpad na vrede 45 Wessies visits Senwes for a third time WOMEN 56 Milanie Vosloo TRADE NEWS 17 A John Deere and Senwes Read the Senwes Scenario online at Equipment customer for life www.scenario.co.za or download the Scenario app. ‘Like’ us on Facebook at facebook.com/ReadScenario Make sure you receive the eScenario newsletter bi- monthly for relevant company and industry news. and follow us on Twitter at Sign in at www.senwes.co.za. @ReadScenario SENWES Scenario • DEC 2016/JAN 2017 1 •••• EDITOR'S LETTER EDITOR IN CHIEF Marlon Abrahams Tel: 018 464 7349 It is raining! [email protected] EDITOR WE HAVE NEVER that it is drops from the heavens? Aubrey Kruger BEEN AS RELIEVED AS Tel: 018 464 7449 Well, let me tell you a bit more! [email protected] DURING THE RECENT Raindrops are usually between 0.1 mm and 9 mm in size. ADVERTISEMENTS PAST WHEN ABUN- Contrary to belief, rain drops Mariëtte Hugo DANT WATERS OF do not look like teardrops Tel: 018 464 7505 and they are more spheric. [email protected] MERCY WERE RECEIVED IN MOST AREAS OF What about speed? Small drops DESIGN AND LAYOUT fall at only 2 m/s while drops Mercia Venter OUR COUNTRY. WHAT ten times larger (5 mm) fall at [email protected] A BLESSING AFTER 9 m/s or 32 km/h. No wonder they can hit your body so hard... CONTRIBUTORS THE PAST FEW YEARS' Dr Erik Adriaanse, Wèan Benadie, SERIOUS DROUGHT, Do you know the terms used Rev Carel Botma, Rev Willie Botha, during weather forecasts? Well, Carl Fourie, Japie Fransman, Thys Grobbelaar, Henfred Linde, Jenny WITH THE PAST SEA- the term light rain means that Matthews, Susari Geldenhuys, Gerrit it rains approximately 2.5 mm SON HAVING BEEN Oosthuizen, Jan Serfontein, Luan per hour, moderate rain is THE WORST EVER. van der Walt, Vossie van Straaten en between 2.5 and 7.6 mm per Milanie Vosloo. hour and heavy rain is 7.6 mm ne good thing about per hour or more. Interesting! SUBSCRIPTION Othe drought is that Marie Erasmus it forces us to our knees, to Globally the annual average Tel: 018 464 7568 pray for rain, which Senwes rainfall is 990 mm and many areas Fax: 018 464 7772 does each and every year. which received less than 250 mm, [email protected] can be classified as desert areas. Another welcome shower of rain OWNER is the announcement of OneA- While we welcome the rain, Senwes, gri, where you can sign on to a we also focus on the Welkom Posbus 31, number of platforms with one and Odendaalsrus area and the Klerksdorp, identity. And it is literally raining spotlight is on Senwes pro- 2570 John Deeres at Agrivan Farm- ducer, Uys van Heerden. Tel: 018 464 7800 ing, with whole goods marketer Kwek Dietrichsen having sold 33 Lastly, if you ever wondered, PRINTING John Deeres to Agrivan. The rain the highest rainfall received in Colorpress was not the only surprise. Gert a specific 24-hour cycle was 1 Tel: 011 493 8622 or Gerlu Roos was as surprised 820 mm at a place called Foc when he won the John Deere Foc in the Indian Ocean. Gator 855D. Thys Grobbelaar • All rights in terms of the content of Senwes tells us more about the prospects Scenario wishes each and every- Scenario are reserved in terms of the provisions for rain in Come Rain or Shine. one a blessed Christmas. of Article 12 (7) of the Copyright Act. • The owner and publisher accept no responsibility for any comments in adverts, promotion articles We all know rain, but what else Aubrey Kruger or from contributors. do we know apart from the fact EDITOR 2 DEC 2016/JAN 2017 • SENWES Scenario THIS AND THAT ••••••• Pieter & Tshepo Rain, rain wonderful rain! REV JACKIE VAN ZYL During the day of prayer for rain at Senwes head office in Klerksdorp. “YOU hold the world and each one of us in the palm of Your The producers are in good spirits after the good rainfall received in hand. We are excited to honour various areas recently. and praise you. You are everything to us and Your mercy is enough. Whether it is dry or whether it MS NOMVULA MOKONYANE rains, He holds it in His hand. ” Minister of Water and Sanitation STAND BY PRODUCERS IN DROUGHT SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE About the floods in Gauteng. he Agri SA Drought About the rain after the drought. IT feels like we were robbed, T “ Disaster Fund needs your help. “THE public is warned that our because we didn’t get what we asked for. We were promised that country is in the grip of a serious HOW TO MAKE YOUR DONATION if we pray and make offerings, drought. It is important to take Donations can be made via the any changes into account which we would get rain so we can have webpage www.droogteramp- could change the current summer enough water. But what we are fonds.co.za with various payment season prospects.” getting now is more than we’ve options like EFT, Credit cards, asked for.” Check and Debit cards, SnapScan JOE MASWANGANYI or by SMS at R30 per SMS. Senwes Groep Uitvoerende MUSA MNTAMBO WHY MUST I CONTRIBUTE? Direkteur Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife spokesman Senwes appeals to all concerned About our dependence on God for About the fact that the rains would go a long way to reduce the strain on South Africans to stand by our rain. producers because they play wildlife. a critical role in the food se- “OUR industry owes its existence curity of this country and the WE hope that we have seen the to God.” “ economy of the countryside. worst and the drought cycle is TONIE ROSSOUW moving towards its end.” Senior weather forecaster from the ENCA WEATHER SERVICE Bloemfontein weather office is posi- the form of thundershowers since tive about possible rainfall. “THANKFULLY the El Niño the middle of October.” event, which was a major contrib- “SOME of the Free State dams utor to inhibiting our summer JANINE VILJOEN could overflow by the end of rain last season, has since totally Krugersdorp News Editor December and the Vaal Dam fizzled out. As a result we have could overflow by mid-Decem- seen a relatively normal start to “I am singing in the rain and will ber.” the spring rains for most areas in cherish every drop we receive.” SENWES Scenario • DEC 2016/JAN 2017 3 •••• MAIN ARTICLE JCB AND SENWES EQUIPMENT: A perfect match IT’S OFFICIAL, SENWES Distribution Development the message that sales and service Director), Andrew Boyers will be the key focus area – “So EQUIPMENT IS NOW THE (Business Development Manager that the customers know that they OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTOR Africa) and Matthew Barkas have guaranteed service back-up”.