Huge line-up for Aldam Stockmanschool 2017

The Aldam Stockmanschool takes place from 18-20 October 2017 near Winburg in the Free State. The conference will focus on participation in the red meat value chain through improved precision management practices.

Huge line-up for Aldam Stockmanschool 2017
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Speakers include Nick Serfontein from Sernick, who began a Bonsmara stud in 1983 and now runs a full value chain with a feedlot, commercial herd, stud, abattoir and butcheries.

Namibia beef producer Mecki Schneider, who runs one of the largest Brahman commercial herds in Africa, Johan Mouton, who does product development for Molatek and Epol, and Prof Kevin Kirkman, a grassland scientist, will also be speaking.

Topics to be discussed over the three days include, pasture management and planted pastures for large and smallstock, intensive lambing systems, practices to produce better quality meat, case studies of financial models in farming, sheep feedlotting, negotiating better weaner prices and factors influencing cow productivity.

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Other speakers include Prof Ben Hayes, from the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, and Jason Strong, who negotiates market access into Europe and Russia for Meat and Livestock Australia.

* For more information, contact www.stockmanschool.co.za.

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Gerhard Uys grew up as a real city lad, but spends his free time hiking and visiting family farms. He learnt the journalism trade as a freelance writer and photographer in the lifestyle industry, but having decided that he will be a cattle farmer by the age of 45 he now indulges his passion for farming by writing about agriculture. He feels Farmer’s Weekly is a platform for both developed and emerging farmers to learn additional farming skills and therefore takes the job of relaying practical information seriously.