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READStockfarm 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. The magazine 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 13. • And much more! Download your free copy here.
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READVeeplaas Desember 2025
Suid-Afrika, wat die grootste uitvoerder van alle Afrika-lande is, verkeer tans onder geweldige druk weens die verhoogde Trump-invoertariewe wat die land se landboubedryf raak. Ondanks hierdie uitdagings bly uitvoere noodsaaklik, veral vir sektore wat op uitvoere na die Verenigde State staatmaak. Die hoofartikel in hierdie uitgawe beklemtoon die belangrikheid van markdiversifisering en strategiese samewerking om volhoubare toegang tot internasionale markte te verseker. Al ooit gewonder hoe die Dohne Merino ontstaan het? Hierdie skaapras is 86 jaar gelede geteel met die doel om ’n geharde, aanpasbare skaap te ontwikkel wat in die suurveld floreer, en goeie wol en vleis produseer. Vandag word hierdie ras landswyd gebruik, terwyl dit produsente twee bronne van inkomste bied. Ook in Veeplaas Desember 2025 • Landbougrond bly gesog, ondanks uitdagings. • Back to basics by die 2025 LRF Veeskool. • Die Nasionale Landbou-jeugskoukampioenskap. • ’n Karoo-boerdery geskoei op natuur en kennis. • Noordwes-jongboer bou vir die volgende geslag. • Kwesbaarheid van die rooivleisbedryf. • RPO-vleis amptelik op internasionale standaard. • Erfdwang: Die fondasie van selektiewe teling. • Genetika en glorie by BKB Merino Classic 2025. • SSA se mylpaal op die pad na uitnemendheid. • Doeltreffende gebruik van dekgewasse. • Elke happie tel: Presisievoeding. • Bestuur hittestres op jou veeplaas. • Boerbokbestuur (Deel 3): ’n Inentingsprogram. • Vlieë en brommers knou beesgesondheid. • En vele meer! Laai jou gratis uitgawe hier af.
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READCHIPS November/December 2025
In the November/December 2025 issue of CHIPS readers can look forward to a fresh harvest of stories, ranging from the latest developments in the potato industry and groundbreaking innovations, to insightful research on using wastewater to one’s advantage, the latest cultivar trials, and pesticides contaminating our food and the environment. This issue includes highlights from Potatoes SA’s regional meetings in Limpopo and other events, such as the Soweto Kota Festival and Weenen regional meeting. CHIPS is the leading publication for South Africa’s potato industry, covering every aspect, and serving as the official voice of Potatoes SA. In this issue/In hierdie uitgawe: • Cultivating innovation and transformation. • Vivo Boerebemarkingsdag 2025. • Aartappels SA hou Limpopo-streeksvergadering. • Market monitor: The first 39 weeks of 2025 at FPMs. • Van grond tot grafiek: Hoe data die bedryf rig. • World potato markets: Hope for Europe. • The value of our fresh produce markets. • Cultivar check: Up-to-Date. • SA’s National Collection of Insects. • Turning wastewater into gold. • LandbouRadio: Aartappels is veelsydige koningskos. • LWO: Trade unions and employers. • Prokon news. • And much more. Download your free copy here.