Farmer's Weekly

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Alternative protein food products require significantly less space, water and other resources than animal production, according to international experts in the research, development and implementation of technologies to manufacture these alternatives

Farmer's Weekly

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South Africa’s often resource-challenged agricultural schools would do well to introduce commercial rabbit production enterprises as part of their education and training curricula. This was according to the founder of the Future Farmers Foundation an

Farmer's Weekly

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Barkly East – The Hencil Bonsmara Stud Production Sale was held on the farm Grootvlei on 8 September. The highest price of the day was achieved by the bull CCV 17 148, which was sold to Schalk Cloete of Barkly East for R83 000. The second-highest pri

Plant-Based Spotlight

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Remember to support these wonderful places this holiday season. Your gift makes a difference! BOB from Rooterville Animal Rescue [Melrose, Florida] is happily living among other rescued, injured or abused pigs, cows, goats, turkeys, ducks, chickens a

Farmer's Weekly

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‘PRICES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN VOLATILE IN THE SHORT TERM BEFORE A CLEARER PICTURE [OF THE SITUATION] EMERGES’ – Agricultural economist at Cotton South Africa, Mario Botha, explaining the adverse effect of the current novel coronavirus outbreak on gl

BBC Good Food Magazine

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Once dairy cows are ‘retired’ (or no longer producing enough milk), they’re sent to the slaughterhouse, where their meat is often used to make low-value processed foods or pet food. But there’s been a rise in producers championing this oft-wasted mea

Farmer's Weekly

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The cost of bush control is much lower than the value of land, so it makes economic sense. When maximum grass production is required for grazers such as cattle and sheep, sweet thorn can be thinned more aggressively. If goats are kept, the farmer

Farmer's Weekly

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The Beefmaster Cattle Breeders’ Society of South Africa (Beefmaster SA) held its annual tour of Beefmaster breeders from 9 to 12 March 2020. This year’s event took place in Mpumalanga, and the tour group stayed at the Henbase Lodge near Morgenzon for

Harrowsmith

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We’ve lost count of the number of times that we’ve stood silently, morbidly, looking down upon some unfinished farm task, dirty and sweaty, perhaps even a little bloodied, and certainly tired. Always tired. And as we turned our backs on this thing th

Chat

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WIN £5 0 Puzzle 12 The Vezo people of Madagascar do not eat the flesh of which animal, known to them as the aondry? The prize answer is the one missing from the grid. BEE BULL CAT CHICKEN COW DOG DONKEY DUCK FISH GOAT GOOSE HORSE PIG SHEEP TURKEY You

Farmer's Weekly

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“The 80 innovations entered into Eurotier’s Innovation Awards competition last year were evaluated by 28 committee members from various countries in the EU and Middle East. The judges soon became aware of a number of trends amongst the candidates. Th

Global Voices

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A new-born naumuthe calf. When full grown, this cattle breed measures equivalent to nine closed fists from hoof to hump. Image: Sanjib Chaudhary. The Achhami or “naumuthe” cow is one of the world’s smallest cattle breeds. Originating from Nepal’s Ach

Farmer's Weekly

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The Winston South Devon (WSD) stud is run under tough sourveld conditions at an altitude of between 1 450m and 1 750m. At the 2020 WSD production sale, JM 18 2535 ‘Winston Incentive’ was sold for a new South African record price for a South Devon b

Farmer's Weekly

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THIS COURSE FOCUSES ON BEEF CATTLE PRODUCTION, INCLUDING HOW TO IDENTIFY AND MONITOR BREEDING BEHAVIOUR, BASIC NUTRITION, HEALTH CARE AND RECORD-KEEPING. Environmental Waste and Landfill Management, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg.Email admin@maphosa

Farmer's Weekly

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Piet Phahlane, along with his son, Richard, and Aaron Makena and his sister-in-law, Elizabeth, are business partners of a livestock farming operation on Melkhoutfontein in Rust de Winter near Bela-Bela in Limpopo. They farm cattle, goats and sheep. T

Farmer's Weekly

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The spillover of the liquor ban into the agriculture sector is going to be serious, but the impact is yet to be determined, according to Agri SA executive director, Christo van der Rheede. Read the article at bit.ly/35YkSQV. Posted: 19 January 2021.

Literary Hub

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Clearly, the controlled use of fire to cook food was an extremely important element in the biological and social evolution of early humans, whether it started 400,000 or 2 million years ago. The lack of physical evidence suggests early humans did lit

Farmer's Weekly

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Aliwal North – The Avoca and Mountain Shadow Sussex Production Sale was held at the Sundown Lodge on 3 September on behalf of Johan du Randt of the Mountain Shadows Stud and Geoff Orpen of the Avoca Stud. The highest-priced animal was the bull GMO 17

Farmer's Weekly

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Environmental Waste and Landfill Management, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg.Email admin@maphosam.co.za. Emerging Farmers and Agro-processing Conference, Protea Hotel Fire and Ice, Menlyn, Pretoria. Email Lindokuhle Nxumalo at lindo@empiretraining.co

Shooting Gazette

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An exceptional agricultural and sporting estate in the undulating Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this delightful estate near Cheltenham would make a superb sporting home for any buyer. Covering 1,122 acres of mixed farmland and attract

Farms and Farm Machinery

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For 53 years this premier regional agricultural show has been giving patrons the chance to talk with experts in the field and learn all there is to know about farm animals. Set to be held in Lardner Park, outside Warragul, Victoria, from March 26–29,

Horse & Hound

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Good old Nicola Sturgeon. The Scottish first minister announced last week that outdoor industries could now resume. All those hungry horses and cows will no doubt be rather glad to hear that… One hears of a pale horse with a bushy fringe, who was bou

NPR

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"I'm sad to share that Zsa Zsa passed away in her sleep last night," reads a message from her owner, Megan Brainard, a pet groomer in Minnesota.

Futurity

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Ancient people may have altered the evolution of crops around 30,000 years ago, about 10,000 years before experts previously thought, new research suggests. “This study changes the nature of the debate about the origins of agriculture…” Robin Allaby,

Farmer's Weekly

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• CP and Gerda Kriek have found that group housing has resulted in healther animals in their piggery. • An electronic sow feeding system ensures accurate management of individual pigs. • Experience has shown that optimal profit relies on a balance

Farmer's Weekly

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Stock farmers face a long list of challenges and risks. One of the greatest of these is the conservation of natural resources, as today’s producers are entirely responsible for their own fodder flow programmes and can no longer look to the state for

Entrepreneur

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MATTHEW ROODA grew up in southeast Iowa, where his parents and grandfather were pork producers. But his family encouraged him to go to college to try something new, so he entered the University of Iowa on a premed track. While he was there, he took a

Farms and Farm Machinery

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The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) is the research arm of the Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. The ABARES Outlook 2020 conference will explore practical steps to reac

Futurity

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Researchers have found changes in gene expression patterns across the brain between wild and domestic rabbits, which likely contributed to the evolution of tameness during domestication. By demonstrating that domestic animals acquired tolerance towar

Futurity

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The genetics behind the bitter taste of some sorghum plants and one of Africa’s most reviled bird species illustrates how human genetics, crops, and the environment influence one another in the process of plant domestication, according to new researc