Tag: foot-and-mouth disease

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes While levy uncertainty clouds the future of Milk SA and its projects, the company's last general meeting for 2025 focused...

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Dr Danie Odendaal, director of the Veterinary Network (V-Net), has written an open letter to the veterinary fraternity of South...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes From biosecurity to bioterrorism. A package from Kenya has been confiscated at the Polokwane airport. Authorities suspect that it contains...

Estimated reading time: 1 minute Stray animals have become a major problem in most provinces, threatening small and large stock producers' biosecurity status. Brent McNamara,...

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The Eastern Cape Milk Producers’ Organisation (MPO)’s annual general meeting and producers’ day took place at The Ferry Hotel, just...

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Dr Frikkie Maré of the National Red Meat Producers’ Organisation (National RPO) had the opportunity to discuss producers’ challenges at...

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The National Department of Agriculture (NDA) hereby informs the public and stakeholders of a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)...

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes As reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), KwaZulu-Natal has experienced 165 outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease...

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Limpopo in November 2019, during which 19 farms and agricultural facilities tested positive for FMD, caused considerable...

This article is part of a series of articles educating livestock owners and farmers about the importance and effect of the Animal Diseases Act,...