Tag: livestock production

Over the past three decades, the beef cattle sector has experienced significant changes due to rising temperatures, altered rainfall patterns ...

Brazil shares similar climatic and livestock production conditions with different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. 

This may sound obvious, but rain and the state of the pasture are two of the most important factors when ...

The trend is shifting away from extensive, natural farming systems to intensive operations where animals are fed from a bag. While ...

Meet Xolisa Bomela, a livestock farmer in Nqamakwe in the Eastern Cape, who primarily focuses on sheep.

An increased tick burden after the recent rain that fell over a short period in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and northern KwaZulu-Natal ...

Meet Makhosandile Fiko, a livestock farmer in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. His main source of income has come from ...

Tossie Ferreira, a highly skilled craftsman from Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape, shared the secrets of making a 6-strand ...

Using intensive pasture can threaten production by leading to metabolic imbalances and disease in pastoral animals. Most crops that are ...