Tag: livestock management
FMD and vaccination: Familiarise yourself with the facts
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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A recent media article stating that the public could purchase foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines from Onderstepoort...
DDG: “Livestock traceability will become law in 2024”
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
“This year, livestock traceability will become law,” said Dipepeneneng Serage, the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development’s...
Grazing and veld management Part 3: Rangeland, pasture management and animal...
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
I was approached some years ago by farmers in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and Kenya who needed advice...
Regenerative farming: When agriculture and tech connect
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Crowned as the Eastern Cape’s Agri SA Toyota Young Farmer of the Year in 2015, Paul Collett of Speelmanskop...
Stop Clostridium bacteria in their tracks
Dr Eddie Snyman is a retired veterinarian from Middelburg in the Eastern Cape. He has many years of experience in treating and preventing diseases...
Simple strategies for restoring productive veld
Each year,
clearing invasive alien plants costs South African farmers thousands. Not only
do these plants threaten the productivity of veld for grazing, but they also
use...