Holdt and Botha

05/11/2020

Farm life🖤

28/05/2020

Mistakes in winter cattle feeding may take more than one season to rectify, and costs a farmer time, money and production.

03/04/2020

This is shocking . Farmers are always on the losing end . Lancewood should be embarrassed and ashamed of doing this .

In a letter to farmers, Lancewood announced that the price paid for milk would be reduced by 45 cents per litre in the form of a levy deduction.

11/03/2020

A proudly South African story. What makes this story so special for Holdt and Botha ? Well we supplied Ms Lerato Sennakhomo with our Nguni cows , which is the foundation she built her magnificent Nguni herd on.

07/02/2020

When rounding off cattle for slaughter, you can either grow and mix feed on the farm or buy ready-mixed feed.

06/02/2020

When performing a visual evaluation of the animal, note the following features in particular: frame size, muscle and body structure, and breed character.

13/01/2020

Two important pieces of draft legislation that will shape the way that land reform in South Africa will be implemented were published recently, and are currently open for public comment.

12/01/2020

A court application filed by two auction companies, a co-operative, a commercial farmer and a group of 50 emerging farmers to lift the national ban on auctions will be heard in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on 14 January.

08/01/2020

According to Michael Petersen, lead agronomist at US-based Orthman Manufacturing, the main pillars of success for strip-tillage are vertical tillage, residue management, seedbed preparation and fertiliser placement. Stehan Cloete explains the technical aspects of these factors.

31/12/2019

Despite facing challenges in its agricultural production and socio-economic environment, South Africa’s food security ranked first out of 28 sub-Saharan African countries, and 48 out of 113 countries surveyed worldwide.

29/12/2019

Howie Liu's firm Airtable wants to make spreadsheets so simple anyone can use them.