KZN farmer demonstrates cattle dipping process

By
Lloyd Phillips
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While on Silvasands Farm, Farmer’s Weekly was able to video record PJ’s cattle going through a medicated plunge-dip for the purpose of killing off ticks that carry a variety of diseases that are harmful, and even potentially deadly, to cattle.

 

Lloyd Phillips
Lloyd Phillips joined Farmer’s Weekly in January 2003 and is now a Senior Journalist with the publication. He spent most of his childhood on a Zululand sugarcane farm where he learned to speak fluent Zulu. After matriculating in 1993, Lloyd dreamed of working as a nature conservationist. Life’s vagaries, however, had different plans for him and Lloyd ended up sampling various jobs in South African agriculture before becoming a proud member of the Farmer’s Weekly team. Lloyd still thoroughly enjoys learning and writing about all aspects of national and international agriculture. He lives in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal, with his wife, Leigh, son, Matthew, daughter, Sydney, and their much-loved domesticated menagerie.

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