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LivestockA Red Meat Industry Services adviser in South Africa sets out the everyday habits that keep cattle healthy: early disease detection, feeding and clean water, timed deworming and vaccination, quarantine and daily records.
CropsSouth Africa's Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy says fuel and electricity inflation is raising costs across farming and the food chain, while a strong El Niño could cut summer crops heading into 2027.
AgribusinessSouth Africa's land reform department will put R500 million in grants into Land Bank's blended finance scheme for the rest of 2026/27, reopening loans for emerging farmers after a pause.
LivestockThando Soroshi of Lady Grey in South Africa's Eastern Cape now keeps about 2,000 broilers, a pig herd producing some 300 piglets a year, sheep, goats and cattle, and runs a shisanyama.
CropsSA Canegrowers wants the health promotion levy dropped in the 21 October medium-term budget, saying it has cost jobs and mills while cane deliveries this season are down 18%.
LivestockWith El Niño expected to bring below-normal rainfall and heat to South Africa's 2026/27 summer, livestock advisers urge farmers to match breeding to grazing, check bull fertility and body condition, and vaccinate well before mating.
CropsThe North West provincial government has set up a packhouse at Jantjies Boerdery to help lucerne farmers in Taung process and pack their crop and move further up the value chain.
LivestockThe Technology Innovation Agency is backing TokaBio's Molecular Rapid Response and Bio-surveillance Programme, which runs mobile and fixed laboratories to detect livestock diseases that cost South Africa export markets.
AgribusinessSpeakers from the Land Bank, the wine industry, Joburg Market and a Johannesburg food store told a Future of Food Conference panel that specifications, packaging, pricing and relationships matter as much as the product.
In a column for Food for Mzansi, Sacau chief executive Ishmael Sunga argues that youth- and women-led poultry businesses need blended finance, shared infrastructure and offtake contracts to grow from survival farming into medium-scale enterprises.
LivestockSinethemba Gebashe began with a mud-brick broiler house in 2011, lost it to heavy rain, and with municipal help and R400,000 in provincial funding now supplies eggs to wholesalers and aims for 5,000 layers.
HealthA study of 533 children aged 9 to 15 in three Western Cape farming areas found household pesticide use linked to biomarker levels up to 57% higher and recent spray drift to levels up to 30% higher.
LivestockBuhlebenkosi Mbatha's Incoso Goat Meat buys goats through a farmers' association, packs cuts in-house for retailers and hotels, and has an export deal for Dubai.
