Fresh from February’s Cape Town stink-up debacle, Kuwaiti livestock traders and transporters Al Mawashi have another livestock export shipment destined for the Arabian Gulf, and […]
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Walkerville to host a Spring Show in September
The dates for this year’s Walkerville Agricultural Show have been fixed. The show will be a Spring Show and will take place at the Walkerville […]
Coming soon: 2nd edition of our Smallholder’s Companion book
Later this year we plan to publish a second edition of our popular 2014 book, the Smallholder’s Companion. The first edition, published in 2014 is now […]
COMMENT: How to raise awareness of animal cruelty
COMMENT – Cape Town’s port controllers did animal rights activists a huge favour last week by electing to allocate a berth on the Duncan Dock’s […]
Africa’s smallholders face common problems
Southern Africa’s agricultural landscape is well populated with smallholder farmers, namely individuals tilling less than ten hectares of land, striving to make a living while […]
South Africa’s agri show dates for 2024
Keen show-goers, open your diaries. Here are the dates of some of the major agricultural shows around the country in 2024. 21-23 March: Kicking off […]
World’s Ugliest Lawn: “And the winner is….”
Do you lose sleep at the thought that your lawn is less-than-the-perfect expanse of manicured green of a well-kept sports field? Or spend many hours […]
Summer Solstice greetings today
Today, the 22nd, is the Summer Solstice in South Africa for 2023. When the southern hemisphere is tilted more towards the sun, which happens between […]
Horse Sickness vaccine backlog to be cleared, says OBP
If South Africa’s government-owned animal vaccine manufacturer, Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) keeps to its word, up to 90 000 doses of African Horse Sickness (AHS) […]
UPDATE: Are RHVD infections slowing?
Although it’s still early days anecdotal evidence tentatively suggests that the rapid spread of the fatal Rabbit Haemmorhagic Viral Disease outbreak throughout southern Africa may […]