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The true cost of weaning stress in an extensive beef cattle production system
Leo Roets is a cattle farmer from Piet Plessis in the North West province of South Africa. Leo has been farming Bovelder cattle since 1996 in a family business with his father and father-in-law. He farms with about 650 cattle on about 5 000 hectares of natural grazing in[...]
EasyWean® NeusRing®: ‘n Gunstige speenoplossing vir Namibië
Namibië is tans vry van bek-en-klouseer (BKS), maar onlangse uitbrekings in buurlande beklemtoon die dreigende risiko. Veeboere moet waaksaam bly en voorbereid wees vir moontlike voorvalle van BKS, wat ernstige impak op dieregesondheid en handel kan hê. Sou dit in Namibië ’n werklikheid word, sal bewegingsbeperkings ook ingestel word[...]
Die oorspronklike EasyWean® NeusRing®: ’n Speen-oplossing sonder bohaai
Die minister van landbou, John Steenhuisen, het in Januarie vanjaar ’n inperkingstrategie aangekondig om die vinnige verspreiding van bek-en-klouseer (BKS) oor die grootste deel van Suid-Afrika te bekamp. Gevalle van BKS is in die meeste provinsies bevestig, met Noordwes, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Gauteng, die Vrystaat en Mpumalanga wat swaar getref[...]
EasyWean®: Gentle weaning, stronger returns
It began with a simple question in the dry grazing zones of South Africa: How do we make weaning less stressful for both animals and farmers? That seed, planted in 1997, grew into EasyWean®’s NoseRing®/NeusRing®. Developed by farmers, for farmers, right here in Southern Africa’s toughest grazing conditions, and[...]