Volume 11 Number 3, 2020
Red Meat / Rooivleis - Volume 11 Number 3, June 2020
Volume 11 Number 3, June 2020
Post-COVID-19-era deurslaggewend vir dierelandbou
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 1 –1 (2020)
Die volgende 30 jaar sal die belangrikste in die geskiedenis van dierelandbou wees. Teen 2050 sal die huidige produksie van proteïen verdubbel moet word om die wêreldbevolking te voed.
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 4 –4 (2020)
Naspeurbaarheid, volhoubaarheid, gehalte blý belangrikste
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 5 –5 (2020)
In hierdie uitgawe wil ons die fokus rig op dit wat oor die volgende dekade(s) bepalend vir die rooivleisbedryf sal wees, ongeag (en dalk juis veral met inagneming van) die COVID-19-pandemie. Die feite bly staan: mense moet eet, die bevolking groei en die mense wat moet eet, raak al meer. Rooivleis is besonder ryk aan voedingswaarde en help dus om voedselsekerheid te verseker. Verbruikers eis toenemend volhoubaarheid, en om volhoubaarheid en deurlopende biosekuriteit te verseker is naspeurbaarheid ’n absolute noodsaaklikheid. Daarby is rooivleis deksels lekker. Dít is die feite waarop daar gefokus moet word.
RPO-kontakbesonderhede / RPO contacts
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 6 –6 (2020)
RPO-kontakbesonderhede/ RPO contacts
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 7 –7 (2020)
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 8 –10 (2020)
Die gemiddelde prys van speenkalwers (190 kg tot 240 kg) was in April in totaal 10% laer teenoor die vorige maand en 12,4% laer teenoor die voorspelde prys in die vorige artikel. Die daling in die prys in April kan onder andere toegeskryf word aan die onsekerheid wat in die vleismark ontstaan het weens die grendelbeleid wat sedert Maart op verbruikers afgedwing is as gevolg van die COVID-19-pandemie. Dit het daartoe gelei dat veeveilings onder groot druk geplaas is. Die prys was egter nog 0,7% hoër omdat die beesvleisbedryf gedurende April 2019 gebuk gegaan het onder die bek-enklouseer- maatreëls wat in daardie stadium van toepassing was. Die gemiddelde prys was egter 7,6% laer as die drie-jaar- gemiddelde prys vir April.
Author Conce Moraba
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 11 –13 (2020)
The South African beef industry was not left unscathed by the unprecedented event that is the COVID-19 outbreak. An economy stunned by global fear and uncertainties saw markets crash and agricultural commodities spiralling downwards. When South Africa initially went into lockdown on 27 March 2020, consumers swarmed to the grocery stores buying and stocking products (including meats) in panic, which resulted in record sales and prices of red meat.
Die impak van COVID-19 op die rooivleisbedryf : tendense oor die medium termyn
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 16 –19 (2020)
Die rooivleisbedryf is as ’n noodsaaklike bedryf tydens die inperkingsperiode geklassifiseer. Dit is ’n baie groot geleentheid vir die bedryf, ook omdat meer mense nou tuis kook en die voedingswaarde van rooivleis opnuut waardeer. Dit plaas egter ook ’n verantwoordelikheid op ons om voedselsekerheid in die land te bevorder.
Boerdery, bek-en-klou en COVID-19 : waardevolle lesse te leer oor beheermaatreëls
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 20 –23 (2020)
Hierdie artikel wil geensins die verlies en lyding wat mense weens die pandemie ervaar, onderskat nie. Die episentrum van die epidemie was in Wuhan, China en het deur die beweging van mense vinnig versprei na ander dele van China en ander lande.
RPO transformation training project : from 2016 to 2020
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 24 –27 (2020)
The Red Meat Producers’ Organisation (RPO) identified a need for training in the primary producer segment and planned to train and dev elop new entrepreneurial farmers in all regions of South A frica. Here follows a summary of the significant progress so far and the training that has been conducted in the various provinces.
Vleisfl itse / Meat minute
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 28 –33 (2020)
Boodskap van die voorsitter
Ek glo u is almal veilig en gesond. Met die uitbreking van COVID-19 en die gevolglike inperkingsperiode is daar geweldige onsekerhede geskep en die normale gang van sake is erg ontwrig.
Author Dirk Krapohl
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 34 –34 (2020)
Weens die COVID-19-pandemie en die gevolglike inperkingstyd het verskeie provinsiale RPO-kantore besluit om hul beplande jaarkongresse vir 2020 te kanselleer. Hieronder is skrywes wat van verskeie provinsies ontvang is. Wat ander provinsiale vergaderings op die RPO-kalender betref, word lede aangemoedig om hul provinsiale bestuur te kontak om te verneem of sodanige vergaderings moontlik aanlyn sal voortgaan.
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 37 –37 (2020)
Weens die COVID-19 inperkingstyd is verskeie beplande geleenthede, soos onder meer die RPO Noord-Kaap, Noordwes, Wes- Kaap en Vrystaatjaarkongresse, tot verdere kennisgewing uitgestel of gekanselleer en na 2021 aangeskuif. Lede word aangeraai om hul provinsiale bestuur te kontak om seker te maak of gemelde aangeleenthede steeds voortgaan, en of dit moontlik aanlyn sal geskied.
Not a delict – just delectable
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 38 –40 (2020)
SOUTH AFRICAN CONSUMERS are fickle. Combine this with their propensity for selective morality and they become virtually unplayable. You, producer of food for the nation, must constantly change your game because the guy buying your produce simply says, “I pay, I say.” It would be more bearable if consumers were constant in their requests but somehow the rules change so often that no producer can keep up. Dieting fads do not help the cause either, because suddenly everybody is cutting out meat or starch or sugar or eating altogether and, two weeks later, they want all of it back. But this time the produce must be organically farmed, the animals must have weekly spa treatments, and it should be cheaper than before ... and even then you might be sued because your produce may have contributed to them becoming fat or skinny or poor or rich or old or nasty or dead!
Grape pomace could give beef cattle feedlots an economic edge
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 44 –47 (2020)
Beef cattle farmers can do well to look into the economic benets of using dried grape pomace and citrus pulp as sources of bre when raising cattle in feedlots. This is according to a press release issued by Stellenbosch University regarding a study done by animal science researcher Dr Tawanda Tayengwa. The press release follows.
Is jy suksesvol met eenvoudige siektevoorkoming?
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 51 –53 (2020)
Een van die groot en belangrike doelwitte van die siekterapporteringsproses is om te sien of ons wel in staat is om siektes wat totaal voorkombaar is, doeltre end te beheer. Want as ons dit nié doen nie, kan ons net onsself blameer.
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 55 –57 (2020)
In this series, the nine chapters of the Livestock Predation and its Management in South Africa: A Scientifi c Assessment are unpacked and summarised by Bonita Francis of the Predation Management Forum (PMF) and concluding remarks by the lead and contributing authors are highlighted.
The science of (delicious and healthy) marbling
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 60 –65 (2020)
The role of marbling in the eating experience of beef and other red meats is well established. However, claims about the benefits of marbling are often quoted without sufficient scientific support and this may confuse the consumer, working against the efforts to promote marbling as a quality trait in beef and other red meat species. What follows is a discussion concerning some facts around certain issues about marbling.
Five key factors to ‘lock in’ sustainable, effective nutrition
Author Ashley Grimsell
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 68 –71 (2020)
Over the years, great strides have been made in the livestock industry, resulting in improvements in animal production. Five factors are considered crucial for effective and sustainably pro table nutrition. These factors should not be considered individually, but rather as interlinking components aimed at achieving a common goal; an improvement in overall production on the farm. Just like a rusty chain, a poor lock, or sagging hinges will cause a farm gate to malfunction, weaknesses in any of these five areas could cause the nutritional ‘gate’ to break down.
Afronding op (hoëgehalte-) weiding as alternatief vir die voerkraal
Source: Red Meat / Rooivleis 11, pp 72 –73 (2020)
AANGEPLANTE WEIDING IS nie gekoppel aan of afhanklik van die mielieprys en die ander fluktuasies waarmee die voerkraal te make het nie. Verder is dit ook nie onderhewig aan die verbruikersargumente dat mielies vir mense bedoel is, of die aandrang van aktiviste op “grass fed” weens die persepsie van fabrieksafronding asook dierewelsynkwessies waarmee die voerkraal geteiken word nie. Weidingafronding hou egter ook bepaalde uitdagings in indien ’n mens suksesvol wil wees. Een daarvan is dat die gewenste karkasteikens behaal moet word wat geld vir die Suid-Afrikaanse mark: 180 tot 250 kg karkasgewig, met voldoende vet wat eweredig versprei is (A2). Om die sukses hiervan te ondersoek is ’n studie onlangs gedoen om die groeiprestasie en afronding van ossies op swenkgras te ondersoek.