Above: Stefan de Christoforo from Waitrose UK, Nadeem Khan, Primafruit South Africa, Exsa grower Poen Jordaan (at back) Kate Adams, Primafruit UK and Wilhelm Joubert of Exsa.

Above: Marno Bothma (right) receiving the prize for best young vineyard block in the Hex River Valley's 2106 Block Competition. Marno Bothma (right), manager of De Vlei Boerdery's Matrooskloof unit receiving the first prize for a young vineyard block in the Hex River Valley's 2016 Block Competition. This was for a block of Sweet Globe, [...]

Growers are making increasing use of overhead netting to improve the growth and yield of vineyards. This is a young block of Cotton Candy vines at Trawal.

Reynecke Viljoen (left) and Leon Viljoen (right) with Professor John R Clark, (centre) Professor of Horticulture from the University of Arkansas, USA in the Exsa Evaluation block in the Hex River Valley. The IFG breeding programme has worked together with the University of Arkansas breeding programme for many years. This breeding programme is 50 years [...]

Exsa producer Carel de Kock is the Farm Manager for De Vlei Boerdery’s Spook en Spartel production unit at Trawal. Here he proudly displays the winning certificate that he won in the annual Olifants River Table Grape Producers’ Association Grape Vineyard Block Competition held in the region earlier this month. The winning block is a [...]

Prior to the start of this harvest Exsa grower Charl Viljoen had completed a complete overhaul and upgrade of his packing facility. Today he packed the first grapes of the season, beautiful good quality Starlight grapes in his new packhouse. A great way to kick off the harvest season. His investment as well as the packhouse [...]

Exsa and De Karoo (Exsa's alternate brand) cartons being loaded onto the Seatrade reefer vessel in the Port of Cape Town. Note the attractive new Exsa branded black pallet caps and pallet security strips.

Exsa is proactive in investigating the benefits and availability of new table grape varieties in order to assist their growers to best serve their discerning markets. Exsa Technical Manager Werner Naudé and new variety specialist Reynecke Viljoen recently visited table grape breeders in California to find out first-hand how the the new varieties of top [...]

Exsa growers attending a feedback session about the the current international and local developments with regards to the new table grape varieties. Exsa Technical Manager Werner Naude (centre, with red shirt) provided growers with feedback from his visits to new variety breeders in California.

Last week the Hex River Valley held their annual Farm Worker of the Year Competition. Farmworkers on Exsa production units again did very well in the competition, illustrating the calibre of our personnel. This is a group of proud Farm Workers from Exsa farms who achieved who achieved places in the competition. Well done!