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Climate-smart cattle breeding
AgriPulse
|June 2025
AGRI-PULSENORTH-WEST - Heat stress is among the most urgent climate-related challenges affecting beef cattle productivity, requiring South African cattle breeders to adopt climate-smart strategies to bolster food security under changing environmental conditions.
"Heat stress is becoming a major threat to livestock productivity," said Prof Giel Scholtz of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) in an online guest lecture hosted by the North-West University's (NWU's) Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.
This story is from the June 2025 edition of AgriPulse.
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