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Stockfarm is a semi-scientific magazine for commercial and aspiring commercial livestock farmers who wish to farm more profitably by applying sound farming practices. Stockfarm is calendar driven and addresses topics ranging from feed and nutrition, to animal health, crops, grazing, breeding, handling and management. Sound information for farmers who are serious about their trade.

Read Stockfarm in December 2025

Value chains are increasingly expected to achieve their goals within complex operating environments while still delivering consumer value and maintaining profitability. Managing value chains that are future-fit requires a sharper focus on enhancing performance, and understanding and mitigating vulnerability within the value chain system. In Stockfarm December 2025 we shed light on the vulnerability of the red meat value chain to disruptions and the factors that give rise to them.

This issue also features a special section on this year’s winners of the Agricultural Research Council’s Beef Performers of the Year Awards.

Other articles to look forward to:

  • Back to basics at the 2025 LRF Stockman School.
  • New milestone for DSA on the road to excellence.
  • RPO meat achieves international recognition for quality.
  • Samic: Protector of red meat quality.
  • Celebrating the 2025 Komga Agricultural Show.
  • Hanover sheep feedlot project: Vertical gains in the lambing pen.
  • Kei Road Farmers’ Association celebrates 150 years.
  • Precision nutrition for optimal production.
  • A comparison between phase C and D growth tests.
  • Maize silage for effective dairy cow nutrition.
  • Boer goat management (Part 3): A vaccination schedule.
  • Managing high temperatures on livestock farms.
  • Flies and blowflies: A serious threat to cattle health.
  • Wireworm management in small stock.
  • LWO column: Night work in terms of Sectoral Determination
  • And much more!

Stockfarm is available from your nearest retailer or become a subscriber today! To subscribe phone Beauty Mthombeni on 064 890 6941 or SMS ‘Subscribe’ and your phone number to 064 890 6941 and we will get back to you. The magazine is also available at www.magzter.com and can be downloaded as an interactive flipbook at digimags.agriorbit.com. Download the online PDF version here. 

Read articles from Stockfarm

Samic: Protector of red meat quality

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes If you thought the South African Meat Industry Company (Samic) is just about carcass competitions, think again. The company’s primary...

Flies and blowflies: A serious threat to cattle health

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Several fly species negatively affect cattle productivity, including biting flies and non-biting flies. Face flies are also important disease vectors...

Stockfarm December hits the shelves

The December 2025 edition of Stockfarm shines the spotlight on the resilience and adaptability shaping South Africa’s red meat industry. Experts from the University...

Trust and muffins lead the way

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes In any business, communicating in silos is the main cause of issues among managers. With only three of us managing...

Installation of electricity to improve farm dwellings

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a Land Court ruling in Sibanyoni family vs Van der Merwe namely that...

Boer goat management (Part 3): A vaccination schedule

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Every Boer goat breeder should establish a comprehensive animal health programme tailored to their farm and environment. Pregnant ewes should be...