Chris Burgess

@UnitedAlimNana @grok what movie is this?

Black 47🎥 I could watch this 1000 times 🍿

On the 90th anniversary of the Spitfire let's remember Lucy, Lady Houston who donated the equivalent of £7,000,000 of her own money in 1931 to Supermarine to keep the Spitfire project alive "Every true Briton would rather sell his last shirt than admit that England could not afford to defend herself" 🇬🇧

South Africa does not face hydrological scarcity in the absolute sense; annual rainfall patterns have not shifted dramatically. What it faces is an engineered system that has reached its design limits while the institutions charged with managing it have lost the capacity to maintain performance or implement the next generation of solutions. The 2002 National Water Resource Strategy gave us the quantitative baseline. Every engineering metric since then has simply confirmed the trajectory. open.substack.com/pub/hkrugertji…

Legendary Illinois corn farmer Herman Warsaw poses in a field with some of his record-breaking crop, circa 1985. He achieved a world record of 370 bushels per acre. What makes his story even more incredible is that when he and his family bought the farm in 1941, the damaged soil was yielding only about 38 bushels per acre. Through soil restoration and highly creative techniques, he completely transformed the fields over the years and made history. More rare photos: bit.ly/44OpIzi

🇿🇦My offer for R5,2bn (debt free net asset value then) was ignored, and now (after writing off R7,4bn of debt, injecting R2,4bn and R250m+ on BRP’s) you’ll need to pay someone R5,2bn to resuscitate it - instead, you’ll sell it to scavengers for it’s remains … disgraceful!😡😢🇿🇦@News24

This gentleman approached the Johannesburg mayor. This man paid R9,649 in municipal rates to receive services, but he neither received the services nor got his money back.

Cattle were currency for millennia. "Chattel" (personal property) derives from "cattle." "Capital" comes from "caput" (head, as in head of cattle) "Pecuniary" comes from "pecus" (cattle in Latin) "Fee" comes from Old English "feoh" (cattle, property) Wealth was measured in cattle because they: - Reproduce (interest) - Provide ongoing yield (milk, draft power) - Mobile (can't be easily seized) - Universally valued (liquid asset) - Survive economic collapse (real asset) Paper money is a recent innovation. For most of human history, cattle WERE money. This is why cattle raiding was economically significant. Not stealing food. Stealing liquid wealth. Viking raids targeted cattle and slaves (both mobile, valuable assets). Your net worth was literally your herd size. Inflation-proof, self-replicating, provides ongoing income. It was arguably a better monetary system than fiat currency.

2025's Western Cape's top young farmer, De Doorns table grape producer Francois Rossouw, talks extensively about the well-being of farmworkers, and especially the early development of their children. Farmers are a national blessing. @landbou @africanfarming_ @FNBSA @AgriWesKaap

@Enghumbhini Wow, you think?

I get the impression the government, ANC in particular have no idea on how to create jobs, stem job losses in mines, manufacturing especially in steel, clothing the car industry. It’s more a finda-finda. No discernible industrial policy, beneficiation and stemming cheap imports

Buyers from Cameroon and Botswana chasing up prices @ La Rhone Limousin cattle auction. But it was an online buyer from Zimbabwe who bagged the highest price of R2,8 million for a bull! European breeds for Africa? Interesting @VleissentraalBs @landbou @africanfarming_

SA agriculture's story is one of 14 million South Africans involved in some way, R300 billion worth of investments, 14% contribution to GDP, and essential food security. That's simply massive, hears the @BFAP6 baseline launch. @landbou @africanfarming_ @AbsaSouthAfrica

Key take-outs from @BFAP6 launch. Agriculture remains critical economic performer (slide). Price of healthy diet for 4 person household rises by 30% between 2022 - 25! Beef exports 30% below potential, Trump tariffs to wipe out R5,6 billion income @landbou @africanfarming_

Die toekoms van die landbou lê in die grond | Landbouweekblad is Woensdag by die eerste dag van die Jack Human-bewaringslandbouweek op Elsenburg buite Stellenbosch en tree as die mede-aanbieder op. @AgricolSeeds

Chris Burgess: Die waarde van praat (en dan doen) @burgessboer landbou.com/bedrywe/rubrie…

Die saak teen Sors Snyman, ’n afslaer van Polokwane, wat in 2020 op klagte van die beweerde oortreding van die Wet op Dieresiektes in hegtenis geneem is, gaan binnekort ná vyf jaar weer in die hof voorkom. landbou.com/bedrywe/diere/…

This is seriously disturbing...

This is so spot on, and absolutely tragic.

"Support the farmer, sustain the nation"; Agri Mpumalanga's counter for the "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" slogan. Lion du Plessis, a farmer with a deep compassion for his community, and especially the education of farm workers' kids. @landbou @africanfarming_ @AgriSA1904

Pasop dat jy nie ekonomies onteien word omdat jy op die verkeerde goed fokus nie - Jaco Minnaar Agri SA president. Sosiale media versprei baie informasie, maar meeste daarvan is vals. Luister na mense wat verantwoordbaar gehou kan word. @AgriSA1904 @landbou @africanfarming_

Pretoria dominee and farm boy Thinus van Staaden on farmers' fragile state of mind. How often it's what hurts you the most, that becomes your life's mission. About the CPR of the soul. How farmers need to support each other. A critical message. @africanfarming_ @landbou