Monthly Archives: July 2022

Stand together againt foot and mouth disease

DESPITE strict control, FMD still occurs sporadically in South Africa. The onus rests on everyone involved in the animal health industry as well as owners of animals to try to control this disease and also identify it in time. Foot-and-mouth disease itself does not cause many deaths, but is catastrophic for commercial farming because it…

Locusts : control them in time

THE BIG PROBLEM with the current locust infestation in Namaqualand, the Bushmanland and the Karoo is that action is taken too late. Speaking is Dr Gerhard Verdoorn, operations and stewardship manager at CropLife SA, who already has 40 years of experience in dealing with locust pests. He thinks sprin- canes must be controlled in the…