Looking for a breed to maximise returns on animals and land? Garren Coetzee, who runs a Chianina stud near Uniondale in the ...

Scientists in the US and South Africa are working to improve prospects for cattle breeders in that African nation -- and they could improve them for breeders around the world. A U.S. Department of ...

South American Creole cattle are direct descendants of the animals brought to the New World by the Spanish and Portuguese during the 16th century. A portion of the mitochondrial D-loop was ...

Johannesburg — FORGET the wine farm. The hot new item for South Africa's well-heeled is a herd of indigenous Nguni cattle. Former Cabinet Minister Valli Moosa, Sir David de Villiers Graaf and ...

They cross breed the South African cattle (pronounced en-GOO-nee) with their brahmans, mainly because of their tick resistance and suitability for North Queensland conditions.

Even if foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) disappeared today, South African farmers would still struggle to export red meat because ...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, ... Ramaphosa is one of the country’s biggest farmers of Ankole cattle, a rare, long-horn, Ugandan breed, ...

The spirit of ukusiza (helping or sharing with less fortunate people) was celebrated this week when 50 Sanganer cattle worth R200 000 were loaned to 16 emerging farmers.

African cattle genomes were very similar to those of cattle first domesticated in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, the researchers discovered, concluding that those cattle were either brought ...