The magazine for livestock farmers: the economy of precision farming.

Ngunis and wheat: A winning combination
Indigenous goat project on the winning path
High-production winter pastures for dairy systems
Veld finishing • Mycotoxins • Game nutrition • GHG emissions • Dry gallsickness • Sheep handling facilities • Poll gene • Auctions

Value of genomics for beef cattle production
The ARC’s GreenFeeds system
Cost of feedlot inputs and outputs
A South African bull price indicator
Fonteine Boran: Excelling in a farm feedlot
Sernick farmers’ day • Shearing season • Wool quality • Beef carcasses • Feedlot rations • Winter nutrition • Weaning • Bluetongue
Respiratory diseases • Biosecurity

Relevance of the beef and lamb carcass block test
Wool versus mutton: Real profitability in the Central Karoo
Genomics in goats and other small-stock breeds
Ebbi Fischer: From weekend farmer to top breeder
Insurance • Winter licks • Winter grazing • Lambing seasons • Liver fluke
Somatic cell counts • Pulpy kidney • Heartwater

Get your tax affairs in order
Eastern Cape Boer Goat Club’s veld ram project
Greater predator numbers, bigger problems
Wellwood Merino: Deeply rooted like the ankerkaroo
Investments • Stock theft • Drought licks • Supplements • Pasture mixes
Redwater • Worm control • Sweating sickness • Auctions

Maize irrigators and water-saving technology
The RPO Limpopo’s wish for unity
Meet the 2024 Santam Agriculture National Silage competition winners
Hendrik Odendaal: Keep it simple, but do it well
AMR in dairy cattle • Karoo drought • Hay-making • The dairy matrix • Weed control
Ticks and climate change • Worm control • Urban farming

Alternative energy in agriculture
2024 LRF Stockman School feedback
FOCUS ON: ARC Beef Performers Awards 2024
RPO geared for change • Make quality hay • Silage quality • Fly control in dairies
Become a stud breeder • Lumpy skin disease • Ticks • Blowflies

The wonder of the water cycle
Navigating the complexity of red meat imports and exports
Worlds View Boer goats: The art of promoting breeding values
ARC Cattle Farmers’ Day • RPO KZN in focus • Salt intake • Scours in lambs
Cover crops • Tail docking • Immunisation • Sheep lameness • Plant poisoning

Boosting communal sheep production
Livestock theft prevention
Veld improvement is a 100-year marathon
Water legislation • IQF chicken • NWGA shearing platforms • Statutory levies • LRF Stockman School • Cattle selection • Hormone-free IVF • Lupins • Bonsmara system • Bovine brucellosis

Sustainable farming: Finding the sweet spot
Ndumiso Gule: Unlocking production potential
Rietfontein Angoras • Precision farming • Cheesemaking • Gut health
Cover crop mixes • Lick supplements • Prickly pears
Artificial insemination • Snotsiekte

Foot-and-mouth disease: What now?
Structures in the red meat industry
Meet our 2024 Climate-Smart Ambassador finalists
Tweekop Jersey herd • Sakkie and Nicky Nell’s Boer goats • KZN Beefmaster tour • Soil conversion • Broiler production • Reproduction management • Estimated breeding values • Bovine coronavirus • Auctions

Focus on the Brahman
Good shearing practices
Brahman meat quality: A review
Sky-Hi Manso’s • Kroon Vee Brahmans • Te Water Group • Tall fesque • Spring grazing
Heterosis • Rotavirus • Parasite control • Soya oilcake • Auctions

Soya crop residues for sheep
Buy or rent land: Weigh your options
The building blocks of a layer farm
Focus on the Boran
Janvos Landgoed • Boschendal Angus • Weaning shock • Broiler nutrition
Sickle bush control • Inoculants • Tapeworm • Newcastle disease

Beef production at the Outeniqua Research Farm
Problem animals on livestock farms
Avondale Tuli: Production comes first
Livestock theft • rBST in milk • Backgrounding • Rainwater harvesting
Teff varieties • Weaning • Bankrupt worm • Sheep scab • Auctions

During last year’s LRF Stockman School, aspects such as eye-muscle area, backfat thickness, and marbling were among the topics discussed. These are the aspects measured in stud bulls and, if incorporated in selection processes, should yield higher quality carcasses in the measured bull’s progeny. But do stud and commercial cattle producers give these traits the attention they deserve and are producers’ goals in this regard aligned with that of feedlots? In the April issue of Stockfarm we examine this question from a few angles. Also included are articles focussing on the feedlot industry, promising some new insights into this essential agricultural sector. 

Also look forward to the following articles:
• Climate indices for informed decision-making.
• South African feedlots and Vision 2030.
• SerDev farmer development goes from strength to strength.
• Nutri-economics in the imitation meat market.
• Weiklip Boerdery’s feedlot: Excellent management for superior results.
• Bonheur Eben, the Braford bull with an impressive FCR.
• Winter licks can mitigate the challenges.
• Beware: Lupins can poison your livestock.
• Efficient use of water (Part 1).
• Breeding goals: Building blocks of success.
• Cull defect identification for high reproduction rates.
• Feedlotting of sheep.
• Vitamin A deficiencies in winter.
• The crucial functions of trace minerals.
• Financing and setting up a farm feedlot.
• And much more!

Calculating small-stock production potential
Role and functions of the dairy ombudsman
Winston South Devon: Home of naturally proficient cow mothers
Rudzani Sadiki • Puttergill Farming • Up George Bonsmaras • GerLou Simbras
Kroon Vee Brahmans • Animal welfare • Silage crops • Pulpy kidney • Redwater
Pasture resilience • Sheep judging

Unlock herd wealth through the auction catalogue
Key principles of rangeland condition and cattle production
Kermar Brangus: Keeping it all together like a three-legged pot
Climate change • Creep feed • Body condition • Fungicides and silage
Ewe synchronisation • Copper toxicity • Rift Valley fever • Two-host ticks • Auctions

Financing of developing agribusinesses
The raw milk dilemma
Van Greunen Boerdery reclaims the silage crown
Biogas • Processed meat • Soil health • Hay quality • Buy a bull • Breeding values
Anthrax • Eye infections • Renting farmland • Auctions

The auction catalogue as a guideline for selection
Focus on Silage
2023 ARC Beef Performers Awards winners' supplement
LRF Stockman School • Dairy herd KPIs • Fly control • Foot-and-mouth disease
Screwworm • Illegal eviction • Auctions

Alternative energy considerations for larger farms
How grain markets influence feed prices
2023 ARC National Beef Performers Awards finalists
Cover crops • Veld management • Soya beans • Heat stress • Record-keeping
Footrot • Lumpy skin disease • Nasal bot

An additional quality system for red meat in South Africa
Shakes Shabalala: When hard work pays off
FOCUS ON the LRF Stockman School
Water intake • Soya beans • Shade • Trace minerals • Bull selection
Breeding season • Biosecurity • Blackleg • Gousiekte • Business structures • Auctions

Piet Roux: Tips for surviving drought
Petrus van Eeden’s veld feedlot
Focus on pig production
Mycotoxins • Bull nutrition • Soya beans • Pig fertility
Grazing management • Coccidiosis • Bluetongue • Biosecurity • Auctions

Regenerative agriculture and fertilisers: Misconceptions
The raw milk risk
ALS Group: Sustainability is the key
Goat meat • Feed storage • Total mixed rations • Phosphate
Camp systems • The rumen • Wireworm • Metritis • Auctions

A local perspective on regenerative farming
Focus on the Brahman
Award-winning Selina Hlabedi’s success story
Home-mixing of oilcake • Net feed intake • Tulip poisoning • Rotavirus
Stomach fluke • Structural evaluation • Auctions

Agricultural engineering: Still a career option?
Poultry farming for beginners
The Boran in a crossbreeding system
Condition scoring • Feed for layers • Hypocalcaemia • Finishing • Fence maintenance • Biosecurity • Acidosis • Histophilus somni • Rats and mice

Ins and outs of the split-ranch system
Impact of predation on the red meat industry
Chris Barnard: Feeding for excellent ROI
Lactation curves • Milk handlers • Finishing old cows • Phosphorus
Biosecurity • Abortions • Bankrupt worm • Liver fluke • Lice and mites

Traceability in the feedlot industry
Rensbou Ankoles: Perfection is the only way to go
AFMA’s code of conduct for the feed industry
Serdev honours top farmers
Anionic salt • Winter licks • Productive veld • Feedlot infrastructure • Seller’s declarations • Age determination • Rift Valley fever • Respiratory diseases

GENOMICS: Impact on breeding values and selection of Merinos
Alternative power options for your farm
State of affairs at the Land Bank
Cow efficiency • Windmill maintenance • Game industry • Irrigated forage crops
Biosecurity • Dairy cow rations • Pulpy kidney • Rabies

Boer goat veld ram project: All eyes on the king of the goats
Make your taxes work for you
A grazing strategy for wet sourveld
Premixes • Prosopis • Water quality • Creep feed
Synchronisation • Redwater • Rift Valley fever • Auctions

How time and patience unlocked the Dorper’s purpose
The use of drones for precision livestock farming
Impact of cross-border crime on producers along the Lesotho border
Lamb nutrition • Bush thickening • Hay baling • Merino wool quality
Biosecurity • Blowflies • Moraxella • Ticks • Auctions

The basics of hay production
South African silage goes from strength to strength
2022 ARC National Beef Cattle Performers Awards
UFS wool project • Biosecurity • Indigenous veld goats • Phosphorus • Zoonoses • Swollen head • Auctions

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