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OVK is a leading agricultural business that offers a wide range of services and goods to its clients. With over 53 trade branches, OVK provides farming requisites for crop and livestock farming. Additionally, OVK provides insurance services, such as crop insurance and short-term insurance, and acts as a dealer for Claas, Massey Ferguson, Challenger, and Toyota. The company also offers client financing services and deals in wheat, maize, sunflowers, dry beans, and lucerne. OVK manufactures top-quality maize meal, including OVK Super, Blackball, and Power, and wheat flour products, including OVK Super and Power. Furthermore, OVK operates six tyre centers and five fuel depots, including Total, Quest, and Engen. OVK owns and operates Gariep Abattoir in Strydenburg, and also provides agricultural education, wool, and mohair. OVK also offers livestock production sales, out-of-hand sales, as well as weekly and monthly sales, shearing services, and technical field services.

With more than 12,000 farming shareholders, OVK has a strong presence in the market. About 85% of its clientele prefer Afrikaans, while 15% prefer English. OVK operates in a region with high potential agronomy, including maize, wheat, sunflowers, dry beans, asparagus, cherry, fruit, and vegetable farming. The region also has planted pastures, natural veld grazing, wool, and mutton sheep farming, as well as dairy and beef cattle farming. Horse breeding, nuts, and ostrich farming are also prevalent in the area.

The region is an exceptional tourism area, with breathtakingly beautiful sandstone areas in the eastern Free State, alternating with picturesque dolerite hills, shorter grass, and mixed grass and bush veld of the southern Free State and the Eastern Cape. Further south and westwards, OVK encompasses a beautiful portion of the Karoo area with its distinctive beauty. The irrigation areas of the Fish River valley, as well as certain areas along the Orange, Caledon, and Kraai rivers, produce solid yields of lucerne, maize, and wheat. The region is also home to a number of prominent dams, such as the Gariep- and Vanderkloof Dams in the Orange, Kalkfontein Dam in the Rietriver in Fauresmith, Knellpoort Dam in Rietspruit, Wepener, Welbedacht Dam in the Caledon, Wepener, Egmont Dam in Zastron, Armenia Dam in the Leeuriver, Ladybrand, Allemanskraal Dam in the Sand River, partially in Winburg, Ventersburg, and Senekal, and Erfenis Dam in the Vet River, northeastward in the Winburg district.

OVK's service area stretches over four provinces: Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, and North West. With the high potential of the region, its farmers, and the diversity of the types of farming in its service area, OVK makes a valuable contribution to the economy of the RSA as a whole, and to that of the Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, and North West in particular.

In summary, OVK is a leading agricultural business that offers a diverse range of products and services to its clients. The company is committed to creating prosperity and sustainability for agricultural producers, shareholders, and all stakeholders. OVK aims to grow in real terms and consistently service the investments in its enterprise at market-related returns.