Agrijournalist and researcher of long standing, focusing on research and thought-provoking rural insights, backed by a career as fourth generation livestock farmer in the unique Steytlerville succulent Karoo - southeastern Cape Province, RSA.
Breeders are quietly optimistic that they can develop a modern animal for the profitable sheep-fat market, while Persians are increasingly being used to breed fat and fertility back into Dorpers, writes Roelof Bezuidenhout.