Gary Patience, who farms in the Western Cape town of Saron, joins us in studio for this week’s edition of Farmer’s Inside Track. He is the co-owner of GT Agri Group, a 50-year-old family agribusiness with his mother, Therecia Patience, who took over the farm from her late father-in-law. Five decades ago the Patience family started with 20 sheep, but today they have managed to grow their agricultural enterprise quite a bit without any government support. Gary talks about his love for farming, and has some valuable advice for up-and-coming farmers and agripreneurs, including the importance of having a side-hustle for extra income. The interviewer is Dawn Noemdoe from Food For Mzansi.

Farmer’s Inside Track is a platform for South Africa’s up-and-coming farmers and new entrants into agri-businesses who need information and inspiration to help them start up and get up to sprinting speed as commercial producers and/or agri-processors. The men and women who have resolved to one day getting to the place where the large-scale commercial farmers are, but not really finding useful information on how to get there. 

This platform is a resource of exclusive content and an online community that aims to support up-and-coming commercial farmers through that tricky phase of their businesses that comes between the starter pistol and finding their stride in the sprint towards the finish line.

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