Some don’t care about the red meat industry at all
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FMD indaba | Red meat industry demands urgent action
The South African red meat industry has issued a clarion call for immediate government action to overhaul the country’s biosecurity ...
Animal disease disrupt the export recovery path of the SA red meat industry
We are halfway through 2025, and if you were to ask any cattle farmer in South Africa, how the year ...
FMD: Farmers’ advice falls on state’s deaf ears
The recent confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease at probably the world’s largest cattle feedlot – where stringent biosecurity applies – clearly ...
Operational control room needed for foot-and-mouth disease
South Africa urgently needs a functional operational control room again where new outbreaks of highly contagious animal diseases, such as ...
FMD | ‘Declare KZN a disaster area’, plead industry leaders
With efforts to date proving unsuccessful at curbing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in KwaZulu-Natal and even beyond, industry ...
WATCH | Agricultural students get advice and wisdom at Nampo
The reality that commercial agricultural producers make up only 0.1% – approximately 60 000 – of the country’s total population ...
WATCH | Khomotso Mashiloane talks traceability as a key priority of RMIS
African Farming editor, Lebogang Mashala, caught up with Khomotso Mashiloane of the Red Meat Industry Service (RMIS) at Nampo 2025 ...
SA livestock farmers should not overlook the Muslim market
Don’t underestimate the Muslim market for red meat, says Adeeb Bassier of Tadhiya Qurbaan & Aqeeqah Services, a Cape Town-based ...
Meat price surge: Dawn of sustainable era?
Red meat producers are not yet making bags full of money, but thanks to good carcass and weaner calf prices ...
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