The Citizen’s Jaco van der Merwe has fond memories of holding onto the cattle rails of his uncle’s bakkie for dear life, with ...

Gideon Jacobs has lived a life of the land. Farm-to-table was never a long sojourn for the barrel-chested Afrikaner, whose accent carries the history of his people. A base of Dutch, dashes of English, ...

As the Department of Agriculture rolls out its vaccination plan, an industry expert offers long-term solutions to ...

Stats SA's 2023 report reveals a 6. 8% increase in total income for South Africa's agricultural industry, highlighting key ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

A visitor even praised the employees for keeping the pens clean. He asked if dung removal was daily. The visitor was shocked ...

This latest outbreak adds to South Africa’s ongoing battle with the highly contagious viral disease, which affects ...

Nearly 3,000 white crosses on a hill in South Africa are a memorial to white people killed on farms over the last three ...

Despite having one of Africa's largest cattle populations, Nigeria produces only 700,000 tonnes of milk annually — less than half of its 1.6 million-tonne demand. As a result, around 60% of the ...

The confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease at Karan Beef's Heidelberg feedlot has further thrown South Africa’s cattle industry into crisis. Farmers and organised agriculture are concerned about ...

Former farm workers living in compounds on resettlement farms in Mvurwi are some of the most marginalised people across the land reform farms. ‘Success’ is limited by a set of major structural ...

The bottom line is that if FMD can occur at this operation, no South African cattle farm or feedlot is safe. But there is no need to rush out to stock up your freezer. Karan Beef said this week ...