Game farmers take knock

[caption id="attachment_145129" align="aligncenter" width="500"] BEATING THE TREND: While auction prices for regular and below-average game have dropped, high-quality and exceptional genetics are still fetching massive prices. A quarter share of Horizon, above, was sold for R44-million at auction earlier this year. Picture: PIET DU TOIT[/caption]

Prices down – but quality still the key as industry struggles

A SLIDE in game prices at auction has caused concern around one of the largest industries in the Eastern Cape, but leading breeders say high quality-game is still in demand.

While a number of economic factors, coupled with one of the worst droughts South Africa has ever experienced, have affected all farmers, game prices have taken a further knock due to oversupply and market saturation.