Category Archives: Let’s Talk Fresh

The Pig Clinic: Sharing advice with SA pig keepers in local communities

At the beginning of April 2022, it was decided that a new series of short ...

National Council Meeting feedback

SAPPO’s National Council met on 28 June to reflect and deliberate on SAPPO’s future strategy. ...

Feedback from the 2022 IPVS Congress

This year’s International Pig Veterinary Society (IPVS) Congress was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ...

Let’s tell our story

SAPPO SELEKT is a new initiative that was born out of the need to close ...

The new Pig Passport

Together with SUISAG, the service partner for Swiss pig producers and international genetics customers, Cloudfarms ...

Kgadi’s take on resilience

by Kgadi Senyatsi What are the values and principles that you draw on to guide ...

From bread prices to petrol: How a war in Ukraine could hit SA pockets

Carin Smith, Fin24, 28 February 2022, photo credit: 123RF/roxiller If the Russian invasion of Ukraine ...

OBITUARY: DERICK VAN DER WALT

Derick van der Walt 14 July 1958–24 March 2022 It is with extreme sadness that ...

Here is the official petrol price for March

Source: BUSINESSTECH, 26 February 2022, photo credit: 123RF/ssuaphoto The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy ...

Minister Didiza launches Farming Register

Source: Media release DALRRD, 21 February 2022, photo credit: 123RF/shaiith The minister of agriculture, land ...

Five essential commodities that will be hit by war in Ukraine

Source: Sarah Schiffling and Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos, The Conversation,  24 February 2022, photo credit: 123RF/juliasudnitskaya ...

Crime numbers still too high, urgent plan needed

Source: TLU SA media release, 18 February 2022, photo credit: 123RF/fabiobalbi TLU SA is grateful ...