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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.
AgribusinessBFAP's latest brief with Absa Agribusiness shows food and non-alcoholic beverage inflation at 1.1% in August, yet a basic healthy food basket for a family of four cost R3,935, about 55% of a one-minimum-wage household's income.
LivestockAt a Mohair Empowerment Trust training in the Eastern Cape, the National Wool Growers' Association urged farmers to identify the predator first, keep records and protect young animals, without wiping out wildlife.
At the Western Cape Nguni Club and Regainer Nguni auction in Darling, a bull with strong breeding values and a proven dam sold for R120,000, and buyers paid most for animals with a record.
LivestockWith Namibia's livestock exports suspended after a foot-and-mouth outbreak, South Africa loses a supplier of 15% of its slaughter lambs this year, and red meat producers expect a short price spike.
LivestockThe in-calf heifer Queen Arusha topped the Ntaba Nyoni & Friends sale near Bela-Bela, where two straws of sexed semen also set a national record at R250,000 each.
Strict biosecurity and wide vaccination let livestock take part at Nampo Alfa despite foot-and-mouth concerns, as farmers and industry used the show's first day to press for better coordination with government on animal health.
LivestockBetter grazing and cheaper maize are helping South African farmers rebuild cattle and sheep herds, which keeps red meat prices up, while recovering pork and poultry output is pushing those prices down, Absa's spring outlook finds.
The Barnard family brought Savanna goats to their Thabazimbi farm to control bush encroachment and now breed them as a registered stud, without losing an animal to tick-borne disease.
