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READStockfarm November 2025
The South African red meat sector operates in a high-risk environment where operational, climate, financial, and systemic hazards converge, threatening the stability and long-term resilience of the value chain. These risks are often interconnected and collectively undermine the sector’s sustainability. The November 2025 issue of Stockfarm unpacks these risk factors and provide recommendations to address them. Also look forward to the following articles: • Labour dynamics in South Africa’s agricultural sector. • 2025 Toyota SA National Young Auctioneer crowned. • When milk isn’t really milk. • How the red meat industry shapes our economic landscape. • Hennie and Liza-Mari Jonker: An integrated enterprise on a small piece of land. • Grass regrowth grazing: Is the ‘second bite’ really so bad? • The value of cover crops in crop rotation systems. • Importance of standardised testing in genetic evaluation. • Calves, cows and choices: When to wean. • Boer goat management (Part 2): Dosing for success. • A decade of disease surveillance in Angora goats. • Innovative strategies for tick management. • Strategic prevention of three-day stiffsickness and lumpy skin disease. • Dry anaerobic digestion: A waste-to-energy solution. • LWO column: Trade unions and employers. • And much more! Download your free online copy here.
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READVeeplaas Oktober 2025
Bek-en-klouseer het vanjaar groot kommer onder beesprodusente veroorsaak. Dit het ‘n ernstige impak op beide vleisprodusente asook die melkbedryf. In die hoofartikel in Veeplaas se Oktober-uitgawe gee dr Mark Chimes, bekende melkbeesveearts en Melk SA se programbestuurder vir dieregesondheid en -welsyn, wenke rondom die hantering van BEK-uitbrekings. Veeplaas het by Rustin Shawe gaan kuier. Hy was Voermol Voere en medeborge se 2024 beesboer van die jaar. Sy Grassfields Droughtmaster-stoet, gevorderde embrioprogram en kommersiële kudde stel ’n nuwe standaard in die bedryf. Lees meer oor sy boerderybenadering. Oktober is Veeskool-maand en vanjaar word die 17de aflewering van die Lewendehawe Registrerende Federasie (LRF) se gewilde ‘skool’ oudergewoonte by Aldam aangebied. Hierdie uitgawe van Veeplaas bevat die Veeskool-program sowel as populêre artikels oor ’n paar van die aanbiedings. Ook in Veeplaas Oktober 2025 • 2025 Klimaatslim-boeredag lok rekordgetal besoekers. • Hoe klimaatsverandering weidings beïnvloed. • Die Barnards se bokboerdery-sukses. • Noord-Kapenaars vier fees om rooivleis te bemark. • Die rol van uitvoer in die beesvleiswaardeketting. • Voor in die koor met gebalanseerde voeding. • Hernude optimisme in die Merinobedryf. • Akkurate voermengsels: Elke kilogram tel. • Die regte mengtegnieke vir optimale herkouerprestasie. • Lamkruipvoer: ’n Lae-risiko, hoë-opbrengs belegging. • Watter gewas lewer die beste kuilvoer? • Gestandaardiseerde toetsing vir akkurate genetiese evaluering • Bosluisweerstand teen middels wek kommer. • Die reg om vee aan te hou: Die opspraakwekkende Moladora-uitspraak. • Plaaswerkers en ongemagtigde boetes. • En vele meer! Laai jou gratis weergawe van Veeplaas hier af.
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READStockfarm October 2025
South Africa’s cattle sector faces tremendous challenges regarding biosecurity and traceability. This year, the dairy industry was among the hardest hit by foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The October 2025 issue of Stockfarm takes an in-depth look at the devastating effect of this debilitating disease and the protocols to follow once FMD has been confirmed on a farm. This month’s issue also includes a special focus on the Livestock Registering Federation’s annual LRF Stockman School, with the complete programme and popular articles that serve as companion to some of the topics to be discussed at the event. Look forward to the following articles: • Mohair Empowerment Trust: Graduates rewrite the story. • Northern Cape festivities put red meat in the spotlight. • Rustin Shawe: Cattle farmer of the year tells how. • Savannas thrive on a Thaba game farm. • The role of exports in the beef value chain. • Bull subfertility: How to minimise the risk. • Feeding a ruminant from birth to slaughter. • The next generation herd health plan. • Boost spring pastures with effective fertilisation. • Livestock’s water requirements. • Grassland Society presents 60th congress. • How climate change affects veld. • Breed purity and structure. • Boer goat management: Buying your goats. • Tick resistance raises concern. • Law minute: The right to keep livestock. • And much more!