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Welcome to the Hobson & Co Virtual Bathurst Show. We would like to congratulate all who entered in the competition and hope you will participate in the voting process. Our aim is to promote the different breeds of cattle and not miss the opportunity for farmers to proudly showcase their quality stock. Voting will close…

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LAND REFORM, AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE FMD TECHNICAL TASK TEAM ON THE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE OUTBREAK LIMPOPO Media Statement 4 December 2019 Progress has been reported consistently over the past four weeks since the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Molemole. To date, 11 commercial properties have been…

  This article on Paul Mills was recently published in the March edition of Stock Farm Magazine.

The 8th Heritage Nguni Auction was held on Kriegerskraal, the farm of Trenly Spence on 23 September. The venue was immaculate and the sale was reasonable under tough circumstances. The highlight of the sale was undoubtedly the top price of R65000 paid for lot 9, a bull bred by Marnice Pieterse of Kapokberg Ngunis sold…

ISSUE Policy: Furrowed brows on the platteland… Policy proposals requiring commercial farmers to hand over half their farms to their workers – first published in April – had somehow managed to fly under the media’s radar until this week when it was latched onto in the Sunday Times and the predictable storm ensued, notes Legalbrief. The newspaper quoted Rural…