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SA Smallholder Magazine now available
The first-ever SA Smallholder Magazine is live. Taking the place of the popular monthly Gauteng Smallholder Magazine, this new digital version will come out every […]
Govt gives go-ahead for another livestock shipment
Another large shipment of livestock to the Middle East has received the go-ahead from the SA government, and assembly and quarantining of the animals is […]
Grain SA cancels Nampo 2021
This year’s Nampo Harvest Day has been cancelled, along with the Nampo Cape Show, which was to be held at Bredasdorp in early September, and […]
Cattle Lost At Sea En-Route to Mauritius
Yet another shipment of South African livestock by sea ended tragically recently when 42 head of cattle of a shipment of 512 died during heavy […]
Foot & Mouth in KZN: Movement of Animals Prohibited
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) has been found in cattle on communal land in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal. As a result, the Dept of Agriculture, Land Reform […]
Six Steps for Supporting Bees
20 May is designated as World Bee Day ~ but every day should be Bee Day. 75% of crops and 90% of other plants need […]
More bird flu, this time in the Western Cape
Having first been identified on a commercial poultry farm on the East Rand, the avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak has now spread further afield. From […]
Nampo D-Day approaches
The deadline that Grain SA gave itself on which it would decide whether this year’s rescheduled Nampo Harvest Day would go ahead or be postponed […]
Live sheep exports not the answer for smallholders, says NSPCA
Of the 186 310 sheep exported by sea between 2019 and 2021, only 27 304 were from not many more than 50 emerging farmers, the […]