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CropsLaunching the 2026/27 Multi-Planting Season in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal's agriculture MEC warned that El Nino could bring below-normal rain and heat to the province's maize, dry bean and soya areas, and promised early warnings and soil-tested fertiliser for smallholders.
At Agbiz's annual information session in Pretoria, its economists explained how the Employment Services Amendment Bill would tighten rules on hiring foreign workers and raise penalties for employers, while trade data showed farm exports up 10 percent.
Two South African animal scientists explain how viable sperm can be taken from the epididymis of an elite bull after death, frozen and used later for artificial insemination or IVF, if the testes reach a lab quickly.
At the Royal Show, farmers Tom Turner and Andrew Morphew said producers must keep expanding to survive while milk buys ever less diesel, and only the top fifth of one study group beat bank returns.
At an FNB panel in KwaZulu-Natal, Kwanalu reported financial literacy among trained entrepreneurs rising from 25% to 58%, and a livestock farmer told how weaner deliveries paid for his farm.
LivestockAt a Royal Show panel, dairy farmers said South Africa has no broad surveillance for foot-and-mouth disease, measures vaccination the wrong way and may have to live with the virus for good.
LivestockAt the Royal Show's new Technology & Education Hub, Mangosuthu University of Technology described how artificial insemination, oestrus synchronisation and record-keeping are helping 33 communal farmers at Rietsdale improve their herds.
LivestockSouth Africa's Nampo Alfa expo brought animals back under strict biosecurity and vaccination rules, drew about 5,000 visitors, and is planning an Africa Livestock Conference for 2027.
LivestockAgriculture Minister Willie Aucamp says the three countries must fight foot-and-mouth disease together, as South Africa ships vaccines to neighbours and waits on Botswana over biosecurity protocols for red meat imports.
LivestockAt a Road to Recovery meeting at Nampo Alfa, South African red meat leaders backed stronger disease control and export access after the foot-and-mouth crisis but could not agree on vaccination rules, incentives or how to pay for the industry's 2030 strategy.
LivestockAn Agricultural Research Council programme in Jozini, KwaZulu-Natal, is bringing animal identification, performance records and genetic data into the breeding decisions of communal goat farmers, with the aim of lifting production and opening access to formal markets.
LivestockNamibia has confirmed 127 foot-and-mouth cases on 15 farms near the South African border, approved a containment plan with buffer zone, fencing and vaccination, and lost EU access for fresh red meat from its former FMD-free zone.
LivestockMartin de Klerk of Perdefontein Dohne Merinos near Clanwilliam uses strict culling, veld testing without supplementary feed and breeding values to build a fertile, hardy dual-purpose flock.
