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Top 25 Farming companies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 127 farming companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 5,684 professional contacts across them, including 1,496 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers farming companies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest farming companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 770 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AFGRI is a leading agricultural services company with core competencies to enhance, support and guide the growth of your agricultural enterprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The VKB Group is an agricultural company, providing support to farmers and producing straight-from-the farm-foods for consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 468 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agricultural company with Head-Office in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, South Africa, with operations in the Forestry, Trade, Grain, Mechanisation, Financing, and Insurance industries…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 443 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GWK forms part of the larger VKB Group: an agricultural company, providing support to farmers and producing straight-from-the farm-foods for consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 384 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We offer extensive products and services, ranging from retail and fuel to finance and insurance.#OBARO is truly every farmer’s one-stop source for everything agriculture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 344 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The OVK Group, with its head office in Ladybrand, is a progressive agricultural company in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NWK Limited is South Africa's oldest agricultural company and has been participating successfully in the grain and food value chain of Southern Africa, mainly in the North West…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 281 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ZZ2 is a South African farming enterprise operating mainly in the Limpopo Province, as well as in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Gauteng, North-West Province and Namibia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “One of the biggest agricultural companies in Africa, specializing in farmer specific needs and systems to bring farming businesses up to precision standards.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bester Feed & Grain (Pty) Ltd (Bester), a BexGroup company, was established in 1994 to market agricultural products after the agricultural control boards had been phased out.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RSA Group is a South African based company, founded in 1984, that specialises in the sales and marketing of fresh fruit and vegetables on behalf of farmers in all marketing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Number Two Piggeries (N2P) is a diversified agricultural holding company focusing on primary production and processing within the pork and dairy industry and employing a diverse…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Haygrove Heaven is a farming company based out of Hemel and Aarde Valley, Hermanus, South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Dutoit Group is a market leader in the South African Agricultural Sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Sparta we pride ourselves in the quality beef we produce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Just Milk is a dairy management company based in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Schoonbee Landgoed is a picturesque fruit producing farm, situated in Groblersdal in the lush Loskop Valley in Limpopo Province.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Livestock Wealth is a crowdfarmingTM company that enables everyone to be an investor - owning cows on organic beef farms and sharing in the profits of the farm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harvestfresh Farms was established in 1994 by George Maxted.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Siphamba Agri Group (Pty) Ltd is an agribusiness that owns farms with interests in grain production, feedlots, beef and mutton production, grains, agricultural machinery services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Farming business in South Africa producing some of the finest fresh fruit in the world, which is supplied to leading supermarkets in the UK and Europe primarily.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agriserve Commodities is ‘n privaat, vooruitstrewende landbou maatskappy in Suid-Afrika wat daarna streef om deur ‘n groot verskeidenheid van aanpasbare dienste in elke landbou…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AL 3 BOERDERY is 'n boerdery wat passievol is oor die NATUUR & sy personeel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Amadlelo Agri is a diverse majority black owned agribusiness etablished in 2004.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cairo Group is a leading commercial farming operation, based in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: farming companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names farming companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of farming companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name farming companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Farming companies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 127 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among farming companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “farming companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names farming companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among farming companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,496 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names farming companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many farming companies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 127 farming companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
AFGRI, headquartered in Centurion, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most farming companies?
Johannesburg leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Pretoria (6) and Cape Town (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,496 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 127 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.