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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2014 (24/12/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2014 (24/12/14)
  • Darwin awards "won" mostly by males, reveals analysis
  • Citrus Summit 2015
  • Packhouse workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2014 (19/12/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2014 (19/12/14)

"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."  Herbert Hoover

  • Citrus League Table

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2014 (12/12/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2014 (12/12/14)

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."  Pablo Picasso

  • Diaries for 2015
  • River BioScience - owned by growers for growers
  • Packaging - an essential part of the value chain

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2014 (05/12/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2014 (05/12/14)

"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."  Stephen Vizinczey

  • 2014 Season Recap: Valencia estimate 2014
  • Packed for export
  • Market distribution

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2014 (28/11/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2014 (28/11/14)

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."  Winston Churchill

  • 2014 Season Recap: Navel estimate 2014
  • Packed for export
  • Market distribution

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2014 (21/11/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2014 (21/11/14)

"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."  Robert Byrne

  • 2014 Season Recap: Soft citrus estimate 2014
  • Packed for export
  • Market distribution

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2014 (14/11/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2014 (14/11/14)

"First the doctor told me the good news – I was going to have a disease named after me." 
Steve Martin

  • 2014 Season Recap: Grapefruit estimate 2014
  • Packed for export
  • Market distribution

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2014 (07/11/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2014 (07/11/14)

"When fate hands you lemons, make money." Dale Carnegie

  • 2014 Season Recap: Lemon estimate 2014
  • Packed for export
  • Market distribution

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2014 (31/10/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2014 (31/10/14)

"A sense of humour is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."  Albert Eisenhower

  • Twitter
  • A quality product
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2014 (24/10/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2014 (24/10/14)

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • CLAM (Liaison Committee for Mediterranean Citrus)
  • Serendipity and the Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2014 (17/10/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2014 (17/10/14)

"Rugby players are like lava lamps: good to look at but not very bright."  Anon

  • Citrus Academy bursaries
  • DAFF roadshows
  • Southern Hemisphere Association of Fresh Fruit Exporters (SHAFFE) AGM

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2014 (10/10/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2014 (10/10/14)

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect to be paid back."  Oscar Wilde

  • Title deed number required for 2015 market registrations
  • US Agricultural Attache: Meeting 23rd October 2014

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2014 (03/10/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2014 (03/10/14)

"A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short." Mickey Rooney

  • The industry turns out en masse in Nelspruit
  • Online market registrations
  • Good news for those exporting to South Korea

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2014 (26/09/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2014 (26/09/14)

"On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us. In real life we get really scared and run away." Unknown

  • US Agricultural Attache to address growers in Limpopo
  • Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Establishment of an IPPC Dispute Settlement Expert Committee: call for experts

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2014 (19/09/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2014 (19/09/14)

"There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed."  Mahatma Gandhi

  • India
  • Longevity
  • Citrus takes centre stage at AgriSETA Awards

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2014 (12/09/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2014 (12/09/14)

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."  Albert Einstein

  • Opportunities in South East Asia - Indonesia / India
  • Andy Lee

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2014 (05/09/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2014 (05/09/14)

"Nothing diminishes anxiety and stress faster than action."  Walter Anderson
"As a cure for anxiety, work is better than whisky."  Thomas Edison

  • Notice and invitation to attend annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting for export of citrus fruit to special markets during 2014/2015 export season
  • PhytClean Project

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2014 (14/08/29)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2014 (14/08/29)

"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey."  John Ruskin

  • Female Farmer of the Year is a citrus grower
  • Annual Coordinating Meeting
  • Grower Indaba

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2014 (22/08/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2014 (22/08/14)

"Everyone is entitled to my opinion." Madonna

  • CRI Research Symposium

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2014 (15/08/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2014 (15/08/14)

"The first step to meet your customers expectations is to know their expectations."  Roy Williams

  • Launch of the Durban Reefer Container Operations Forum (DRCOF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2014 (08/08/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2014 (08/08/14)

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."  Abraham Lincoln

  • 2014 Europhyt to end July
  • Marking requirements

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2014 (01/08/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2014 (01/08/14)

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be learning from experience."  George Bernard Shaw

  • PMA Fresh Connections
  • Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) update
  • Technical support to undertake energy efficiency initiatives

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2014 (25/07/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2014 (25/07/14)

"They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." 
John Lennon

  • CGA has a new home
  • Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between SADC and EU concluded
  • Wim Engelbrecht

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2014 (18/07/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2014 (18/07/14)

"You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."  Will Rogers

  • PMA Fresh Connections
  • African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2014 (11/07/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2014 (11/07/14)

"Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other peoples drama, repeat these words – not my circus, not my monkeys."  Polish Proverb

  • Europhyt report

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2014 (04/07/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2014 (04/07/14)

"I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert." 
Mary J. Bligh

  • Christmas in July
  • Possible port congestion

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2014 (27/06/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2014 (27/06/14)

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."  Albert Einstein

  • Ambassadors visit the citrus industry
  • Ethephon testing

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2014 (20/06/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2014 (20/06/14)

"Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire."  William B. Yeats

  • CBS meetings

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2014 (13/06/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2014 (13/06/14)

"Don’ wish it were easier - wish you were better."  Jim Rohn

  • Commitment to compliance
  • Meetings with regard to Citrus Black Spot
  • Ethephon testing

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2014 (06/06/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2014 (06/06/14)

"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good you are at chess the pigeon is going to knock over the pieces, cr*# on the board and strut around like it’s victorious."  Anon

  • Fruit South Africa appoints first CEO
  • Citrus Black Spot information sessions

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2014 (30/05/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2014 (30/05/14)

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."  Andrew Carnegie

  • New Minister and Deputy Minister of DAFF
  • Citrus Black Spot

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2014 (23/05/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2014 (23/05/14)

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them."

  • Philippines
  • South Korea

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2014 (16/05/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2014 (16/05/14)

"Everybody is born with talent; nobody is born with experience."  Anon

  • Japan
  • CRI production workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2014 (09/05/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2014 (09/05/14)

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."  Katharine Hepburn

  • CBS information / decision pending
  • Citrus export workshop for export agents, commercial cold stores, forwardng agents and packhouse managers
  • Competing against junk food

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2014 (02/05/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2014 (02/05/14)

"If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes- then learn how to do it later."  Richard Branson

  • South Korean program
  • Durban Reefer Container Operations Forum (DRCOF)
  • Reefer container rail

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2014 (25/04/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2014 (25/04/14)

"Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb, it’s where all the fruit is."  Shirley McLaine

  • Global Citrus teleconference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2014 (18/04/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2014 (18/04/14)

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."  Laurence J. Peter

  • Ntombi Msimang
  • Sustainable Fruit Initiative (SFI)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2014 (11/04/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2014 (11/04/14)

"No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part."  Tiger Woods

  • Citrus Improvement Scheme (CIS)
  • CBS - Grower advisory
  • Update on the Citrus Inspection Planning Tool (CIPT)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2014 (04/04/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2014 (04/04/14)

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."  Lester B. Pearson

  • The Fruit Industry Value Chain Round Table (FIVCRT)
  • SHAFFE statistics

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2014 (28/03/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2014 (28/03/14)

"Someday, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."  George Washington

  • The US Program
  • Citrus Improvement Scheme (CIS)
  • Robbie Robinson leaves PPECB

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2014 (21/03/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2014 (21/03/14)

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure that they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues."  Elizabeth Taylor

  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF) endorses crop estimate for 2014
  • Good news following the South Africa-USA bilaterals

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2014 (14/03/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2014 (14/03/14)

"Nobody believes the official spokesman.. but everybody trusts an unofficial source."  Ron Nesen

  • Recognising reefer containers
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF) meeting

 

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2014 (07/03/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2014 (07/03/14)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." 
Winston Churchill

  • Orchard registration for the EU
  • Training and registration of fright forwarders, cold store operators and export agents
  • Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2014 (28/02/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2014 (28/02/14)

"Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going."  Jim Ryan

  • Research on Regulatory Aspects of [Citrus] Reefer Container Transport (Mitchell Brooke)
  • List of registred orchards and packhouse for China
  • SIZA

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2014 (21/02/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2014 (21/02/14)

"The point of living and being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." Peter Ustinov

  • Grower Roadshow
  • Citrus Black Spot: EFSA Report
  • Post-harvest workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2014 (14/02/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2014 (14/02/14)

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."  Mark Twain

  • Citrus Black Spot
  • Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2014 (07/02/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2014 (07/02/14)

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back."  Oscar Wilde

  • Citrus Black Spot: facts and speculation
  • Message back from Berlin
  • Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2014 (31/01/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2014 (31/01/14)

" Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to their graves with their song unsung." 
Henry Thoreau

  • Pieter Nortje re-elected as chairman of CGA
  • Workshops/Roadshows/Meetings
  • Risk Management System

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2014 (24/01/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2014 (24/01/14)

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden

  • Cryptogran - the growers' own solution to FCM: without molasses
  • Deon Joubert joins CGA
  • Growers Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2014 (17/01/14)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2014 (17/01/14)

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." James Thurber

  • Packhouse manager training
  • List of approved orchard for exports to the People's Republic of China
  • Citrus Black Spot sprays

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