Tag: Cattle

When this North West farmer decided to only employ women on her award-winning Merino stud farm, she reaped the benefits. The mortality rate of her lambs fell noticeably, something she ...

Starting a dairy farm is no small undertaking, warns dairy farmer Kireshni Naiker. The days of smallholders making a living milking only a few cows are long past, but here ...

The quality of your hay impacts the yield and quality of what your livestock provides you, so it is definitely worth while to invest in the quality of your hay. ...

Although the Beefmaster Group is today known as one of the Northern Cape’s largest private employers, it started as a small cattle feeding business in 1965. At the time, the ...

“I was born with it,” says Ndumiso Gule on this episode of the Farmer's Inside Track podcast. “My passion for farming started when I was young.” Gule, the assistant farm ...

Near Bloemfontein in the Free State lies a 700-hectare farm, mostly grazed by cattle, sheep and goats. The sizeable land is home to over 200 head of cattle as well ...

Thapelo Kgopodithate might be just 33 years old, but he’s already learned one of life’s greatest lessons. He learned that “farming in the Kalahari is like farming on the moon. Sometimes ...

“The vision of making a difference and being the change we want to see has kept us going throughout this entire journey, not forgetting the passion we have to our ...

These days Petrus Tsotetsi might be a successful farmer, but not too long ago he was fixing cars for a living and also previously worked as a supervisor for Metrorail, ...