AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Willem Mulke and his sons Jaco and Kolver are doing things their way: working as a unit while still pursuing their individual interests. They produce a number of irrigation crops, but focus mainly on onions and seed potatoes.
A family-based approach
The Mulkes farm along the R357 between Kimberley and Douglas, where Willem and his father first started out with rented land on the farm Bossiespan in 1978.
Willem then started renting land on his own and was later able to purchase the farm Nuwejaarskraal in 1984, where he and his wife, Annemarie, still live today.
“I first bought here, and then started buying land around the farm. The original farm, Bossiespan, we bought about one-and-a-half years ago,” says Willem.
Nuwejaarskraal had been a stock farm and lacked irrigation infrastructure. It was only in the early 1990s that Willem installed the first pivots.
