OVK represents and provides the following services and goods:

– All farming necessities for sowing and livestock farming (53 Trade Branches);

– Insurance services: Crop insurance and Short-term insurance;

– Dealers of Fendt, Claas, Massey Ferguson, Challenger, and Toyota;

– Customer financing services;

– Traders in wheat, maize, sunflower, dry beans and alfalfa;

– Manufactures top quality maize flour products (OVK Super, Blackball and Power);

– OVK operates six tire centres: Ficksburg, Ladybrand, Burgersdorp, Hopetown, Zastron and Dewetsdorp;

– Operate five fuel distribution points (Total, Quest and Engen);

– Owns and operates Gariep Abattoir (Strydenburg);

– Agricultural guidance;

– Wool and mohair trade

– Lewende Hawe: Production auctions, out-of-hand transactions as well as weekly and monthly auctions;

– Shearing services

– Technical field services.

About 12,000 farmer-shareholders. Language preferences: about 85% Afrikaans, 15% English.

Area is highly diversified: High potential arable farming, namely maize, wheat, sunflowers, dry beans, also asparagus, cherry, fruit and vegetable cultivation / planted pastures / natural grassland pastures / wool sheep and meat sheep farms / dairy and beef cattle farms / horse farms, nut plantations and ostrich farms occur. The irrigated areas of the Fish River Valley and also irrigation along the Caledon, Crow and Orange Rivers produce solid crops of alfalfa, maize and wheat;

Outstanding tourism area. The sandstone area in the Eastern Free State and Eastern Cape is breathtakingly beautiful, interspersed southwards with beautiful dolerite ridges and shorter grass and mixed grass & bush fields of the Southern Free State and Eastern Cape. Further south and westwards, OVK encloses a piece of beautiful Karoo territory with a distinctive beauty;

Area includes prominent South African dams: Gariep Dam and Vanderkloof Dam (in Orange), Knellpoort Dam and Welbedacht Dam (along and in the Caledon), Kalkfontein Dam (in the Rietriver in Fauresmith), Egmont Dam (Zastron), Armenia Dam (in the Lion River, Ladybrand) , Allemanskraaldam (in the Sand River, partly in the districts of Winburg, Ventersburg and Senekal) and Erfenisdam (to the north-east connected to Winburg district);

IEC’s service area is in four provinces, Free State, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape and North West. Fifty-three trade branches, from Wesselsbron in the north to Port Elizabeth in the south, Prieska in the west and Elliot in the east are operated.

The high potential of the area and its farmers, and the diversification of its industry branches, make OVK a prominent player in various areas of the RSA economy and of that of the Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and North West in particular.