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Oilseeds Focus December 2024
Amidst our ever-growing agricultural challenges and growth opportunities, staying informed is more crucial than ever for oilseeds producers and processors striving for profitability. Oilseeds Focus is dedicated to ensuring that every role-player in the oilseeds value chain stays updated with the latest research, market movements, and news relating to the oilseed industry. The December 2024 issue of Oilseeds Focus is packed with essential articles that provide comprehensive insights into the latest news, market reports, industry events and research. Articles to look forward to in this issue: • Spray application in canola. • Promising soya bean cultivars. • Ninth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture. • Profitability and risk profile: A South African perspective. • Oilseeds producers go for gold. • Effective seed treatments and coatings. • New groundnut cultivars registered. • Soya bean genetics, genomics and breeding. • Heat and drought: Just as damaging as certain herbicides. • The 2024/25 oilseeds outlook. • World oilseeds production forecast. • Canola meal for poultry. Download your free copy here.
Veeplaas Desember 2024
Naspeurbaarheid, siektes, onbestendige pryse, ’n potensiële graderingstelsel, die rol van veeartse en befondsing is hoofkwessies wat aangespreek moet word om sukses te ontsluit. Omdat Suid-Afrika binne Suider-Afrika bedrywig is, moet die hele streek se beesvleisbedryf opgehef word indien die land sy eie situasie wil verbeter. Dit is van die sake wat by die 16de LRF Veeskool by die Aldam-vakansieoord in die Vrystaat bespreek is. Lees Veeplaas Desember vir volledige terugvoer. Soos gewoonlik berig ons oor ’n aantal belangrike sake in die rooivleisbedryf, waaronder die UP Agric-voerkraaluitdaging waarin studente verskeie kwessies van ‘n skaapvoerkraal aanspreek en dr Japie van der Westhuizen van SA Stamboek se riglyne hoe om ’n stoetteler te word. Siekterapportering, knopvelsiekte en hoe om dit te voorkom, kom ook onder die soeklig. In Veeplaas Desember 2024 • LRF Veeskool 2024 terugvoer. • Klimaatslim-ambassadeur inspireer. • Hendrik Odendaal: Bewaar eenvoudig, doen dit goed. • Voerkraaluitdaging: So lyk ’n goeie voerkraallam. • Skuiwe in suiwelsertifisering op pad. • Maak en gebruik net goeie gehalte hooi. • Hoe om ’n stoetteler te word. • Andrew Jordaan oor tradisie en innovasie. • Inenting kan knopvelsiekte voorkom. • Brommers kan ’n skaap lewendig opvreet. • En vele meer! Laai jou uitgawe hier af.
Stockfarm December 2024
While role-players in South Africa’s red meat industry are more united and willing to work together than ever, a lack of funding remains one of the industry’s main stumbling blocks. This emerged during an industry stakeholder meeting held prior to the start of the 2024 LRF Stockman School in October this year. Stockarm was at the event and in this issue will be unpacking the burning issues impacting the red meat industry. Also included is a special section featuring this year’s winners of the Agricultural Research Council’s Beef Performers of the Year Awards. Also look forward to the following articles: • Alternative energy in the agricultural landscape. • Legislation on reproductive operator registration. • RPO National: Geared for change and renewal. • RPO: Value chain workshop discusses red meat issues. • Tips for making top-quality hay. • The benefits of forage seeds. • Outeniqua information day focusses on research. • Quality silage production: Don’t drop the ball early. • The why and how of fly control in dairies. • How to become a stud breeder. • Climate change, ticks and tickborne diseases (Part 1). • An effective vaccination plan for lumpy skin disease. • Blowflies can eat your sheep alive. • Mediation in terms of the new Land Court Act. • And much more! Download your free copy here.