Stockfarm Magazine - August 2020

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In this issue

Focus on the Boran breed
COVID measures for farms
Ewe nutrition • Game meat • Cover crops • Silage fermentation • Synchronisation
Calf health • Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis • Johne’s disease

Ewe Nutrition For Optimal Lamb Production

Sheep producers are often heard complaining about ewes that produce thick and sticky, slow-flowing colostrum, with a subsequent negative effect on lambs. Several studies indicate that this problem can be directly attributed to poor nutrition during late gestation.

5 mins

Champion farmer's support plan for emerging farmers

In 2019 Rego Malao was crowned SA Stud Book and Unistel’s Emerging Stud Farmer of the Year. With his farming enterprise growing by leaps and bounds, he came up with a first-rate plan to assist emerging farmers, who share his passion for beef cattle production, on their road to success.

5 mins

Sernick Bonsmaras: Selecting For Feed Conversion And Growth

When breeding female animals, the focus of your selection process should be on the improvement of reproduction and relative growth. Since nutrition (the environment) has such a huge impact on reproduction and milk production, it is crucial that enough feed is available for the cow.

5 mins

The versatility of cover crops

The use of cover crops has been gaining momentum in recent years. It is especially farmers adhering to the principles of regenerative agriculture, or conservation agriculture, that are making huge strides in gaining experience in the benefits of various plant species, if they are utilised correctly.

5 mins

Silage Fermentation And The Use Of Inoculants

Since the dawn of time there has been a need to provide a good quality supplementary feed source in times when grass or other forage options are limited. In modern agriculture, silage production forms an integral part of most livestock production systems.

10 mins

Conservation Agriculture Can Boost Maize Yields

Maize farmers who aim to practise no-till or conservation agriculture on their farms will benefit from significantly higher yields during dry seasons, since these farming methods allow them to plant crops much closer together.

5 mins

Guidelines For Effective Silage Face Management

Face management involves the effective management of the open side of a bunker – the face – so as to prevent losses.

3 mins

Investigating the meat quality of Boran cattle

Boran cattle have been subject to prolonged natural selection under harsh environmental conditions for centuries and are now considered an early maturing medium-frame animal. The Boran breed is known for its low production costs and the ability to produce an excellent carcass that can be marketed off the veld.

3 mins

Synchronisation And AI Of Beef Cattle Cows Make Sense

Artificial insemination (AI) offers tremendous benefits to the commercial cattle producer. And these benefits stretch far beyond the genetic progress that can be made. This is according to Peter Milton, a cattle production consultant from Port Elizabeth. The first advantage of AI, he says, is its cost-saving aspect.