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How to achieve long-term reduction in antimicrobial use in your pig herd

With the global drive to stop routine antimicrobial use in livestock and reduce use of ...

Agriculture can save South Africa from its unemployment crisis

Agri SA is concerned about the rising unemployment rate and wishes to remind the government ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research done

The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) has obtained approval to do research into AMR ...

There is NO evidence that Swine Influenza occurs in pigs

There is no evidence that Swine Influenza (SI) occurs in pigs in South Africa, says ...

How to stimulate regional economic development in Africa

Prof LJ Grobler, Director CFAM Technologies, Professor – Faculty of Engineering, North-West University, South Africa ...

Meat industry needs to ‘restore pride’

The meat industry has become a “pharmakon” and needs to communicate its benefits to the ...

Tackling Agro-terrorism

The goal of “traditional” bioterrorism is to attack human health by using human and zoonotic ...

41 million people in Southern Africa to face food insecurity

About 41,2 million people in 13 Southern African countries will suffer food insecurity between now ...

How has the threat of African swine fever changed biosecurity?

Even though African swine fever (ASF) is not now, nor ever has been in the ...

Better breeding for better disease management

Preliminary results suggest that in swine there is an association between immune response phenotype and ...

South Africa’s carbon tax matters

Carbon tax is likely to be an effective way of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, which ...

Flies can play a role in transmitting ASF into farms

Pigs can in theory get infected with African Swine Fever virus by eating infected flies. ...