South Africa plans to vaccinate its entire herd of more than 7 million cattle in an effort to contain foot-and-mouth disease ...

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has announced the full-scale vaccination of the national cattle herd. This comes as farmers, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal, continue to battle one of the worst ...

The Department of Agriculture has announced that South Africa will move to vaccinate its entire national cattle herd for Foot and Mouth Disease—a massive shift in its response to the national outbreak ...

South Africa is rolling out a nationwide jab for its 7.2 million-strong cattle herd, in a bid to shut the gate on foot-and-mouth disease before more value escapes. The biosecurity blitz is aimed at ...

South Africa has used its G20 presidency to elevate biosecurity as a central pillar of the forum’s agricultural work for 2025 ...

In 2019, the Federal Government launched a 10-year National Livestock Transformation Plan to curtail the movement of cattles, boost livestock production and quell the country’s herders-farmers ...

A cow lazily swishes its tail at a persistent buzzing, but the drone maintains its station hovering above the herd. The images it collects are analyzed with data from the animals and an array of ...

The need to help young people get into farming is among 10 priority issues identified by the state’s $3.6 billion-a-year livestock sector. Livestock SA president Richard Halliday said the issues would ...