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In this issue

Livestock’s role in conservation agriculture
Shakes Shabalala: Diversification keeps the cashflow going
Shearing practices • Shongololo Boer Goat Stud • Lick supplementation • Feed additives
Lamb creep feeding • Crop residues • Parasite control • Lumpy skin disease

Climate-Related Hazards: How Smallholders Can Mitigate Its Consequences

Rainfed crop production remains the main source of food security and livelihoods for rural communities in South Africa but presents the challenge of climate variability due to its high dependence on weather variables such as rainfall and temperature.

Climate-Related Hazards: How Smallholders Can Mitigate Its Consequences

2 mins

Shongololo Boer Goat Stud: Only The Best Will Do

South African Boer goats have proven popular worldwide for their ability to improve indigenous goat breeds. In addition, Covid-19 restrictions necessitated the establishment of electronic auctions, making it easier for foreigners to acquire outstanding genetic material exported by agents via established channels.

Shongololo Boer Goat Stud: Only The Best Will Do

5 mins

Feed Additives: A Veterinary Perspective

In an already volatile environment, dairy profit margins vary as milk prices and feed costs shift annually. Feed costs represent the largest input cost (an estimated 35 to 70% of the variable cost) in the production of milk. As a group of feed ingredients, feed additives can cause a desired physiological response in a non-nutrient way, such as pH shift, growth or metabolic modifier, and will usually be cost-beneficial.

Feed Additives: A Veterinary Perspective

4 mins

Tips for a successful AI programme

The success of an artificial insemination (AI) programme depends on several factors that are largely within the control of the producer. It is interesting that those producers who take a hands-on approach to their cattle and inspect them regularly are also the ones who achieve the greatest success. Before his passing, Stockfarm spoke to Koot Louw, a well-known reproduction technologist from Brandfort in the Free State, about his insights into and advice regarding the AI process.

Tips for a successful AI programme

2 mins

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PublisherPlaas Media

CategoryBusiness

LanguageEnglish

FrequencyMonthly

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