SAMAC Mac Day: From Good to Great
1-3 September 2020
1 September 2020
Mr Dawie Roodt – Keynote – Politics, ideology, economy- how to survive Covid-19
https://youtu.be/_Xk74Tc7qjc
Dr Elsje Joubert – Sustainable stink bug control
https://youtu.be/b5RZFGrHf2k
Dr Nicky Taylor – Sustainable water use for the future
https://youtu.be/ZYY4pgSQQpM
Dr Schalk Schoeman – The risk and control of one of South Africa’s newest pests (Felted Coccid)
https://youtu.be/2i5lGhPdaq8
2 September 2020
Mr Pieter van der Westhuizen – Market demand before and after the Covid-19 pandemic
https://youtu.be/nXApFnYefkU
Mr Juan Winter – “Mac-economics”: Calculating the cost due to pests and diseases
https://youtu.be/Z6R5PeLMg6c
Mrs Lizel Pretorius – What’s new in the global market?
https://youtu.be/ZI29M2RMINI
Mr Nicholas Davis – How will the traditional macadamia growing regions be affected by climate change?
https://youtu.be/dpposcM2-fw
Multimedia presentation by Nedbank, sponsors for the day
https://youtu.be/6WBgB-mm8cw
Questions and answers by Pieter van der Westhuizen and Juan Winter
https://youtu.be/8K_4hSeCVFc
Questions and answers by Lizel Pretorius and Pieter van der Westhuizen
https://youtu.be/N6WClNYV-oU
3 September 2020
Dr Gerda Fourie – The Macadamia Protection Programme: the result-driven research FABI is driving for SAMAC
https://youtu.be/ZgE8qyKr2sw
Prof Zander Myburg – Pushing the envelope in tree genetics
https://youtu.be/YPuLmUP1XiU
Prof Adéle McLeod – Phytophthora: Towards finding solutions
https://youtu.be/4AqdChpmrvo
Presentation by Mr Voltan Senekal and Mrs Charla Meyer of Villa Crop, sponsors for the day https://youtu.be/lGuXql6nD84