Why on earth would an investment manager give up the high life to work in agriculture? In this week’s edition of the Farmer’s Inside Track podcast series we meet Buchule Jack, the CFO of a farming operation in Bothaville in the Free State.

His investment background, including qualifications from the GIBS Business School, has proved to be instrumental in his endeavour to become a mega-farmer. Jack’s own father has farmed for more than 40 years. In this interview with Food For Mzansi co-founders Ivor Price and Kobus Louwrens he also speaks candidly about the importance of crossing racial and other barriers to secure food sustainability for all.

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.

SALUTING UNSUNG AGRI-HEROES 

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