Advances in pig genetics are rapidly changing breeding and herd management. With digital phenotyping and artificial intelligence, breeders can now select pigs not just for growth and efficiency but ...

The Bridgewater Stud in Hekpoort, owned and run by Garland Poil, has gone from strength to strength since its establishment ...

On the outskirts of Milnerton, Cape Town, where the Atlantic Ocean stretches towards the horizon and Table Mountain rises ...

Eastern Cape Agriculture MEC Nonceba Kontsiwe tabled the 2024/25 annual report of the Department of Agriculture at the ...

Ronel Retief, a Cape Lob Ear indigenous veld goat stud breeder, runs her top-performing Klawervlei flock high in the ...

Signal boosters are becoming essential in South African homes under the constant threat of load-shedding, while fibre ...

The seven-seater Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace SUV has officially been replaced by the Tayron, a moniker used only in China ...

The closure of the Denny Mushrooms farm in Phesantekraal in the Western Cape has sparked speculation over the feasibility of ...

Genetics, performance data, and breeding values are powerful tools for marketing animals, but a championship show title carries a lot of weight.

The spread of foot-and-mouth disease into some of the country's largest feedlots this year has once again exposed a systemic ...

WANDILE SIHLOBO is chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) and a member of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Economic Advisory Council as well as the Advisory Panel on L ...

Goat meat statistics in South Africa poorly reflect the reality of the market, with huge differences between official figures and informal estimates.