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Volume 3 Number 1, March 2019
Bonsmara quo vadis? / Whither goest thou?
Author Hennie Coetzee
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 3 –3 (2019)
Die Bonsmara-genootskap van Suid-Afrika is op 25 Februarie 1964 gestig. Talle opspraakwekkende gebeurtenisse het die afgelope 55 jaar sedert die genootskap se ontstaan plaasgevind. Die eerste hartoorplanting is op 3 Desember 1967 deur dr Chris Barnard in die Groote Schuur-hospitaal in Kaapstad uitgevoer. Op 21 Julie 1969 het Neil Armstrong die eerste mense-tree op die maan gegee. Op 6 Januarie 1976 is televisie vir die eerste keer landswyd in Suid-Afrika uitgesaai.
Author Louis Steyl
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 5 –5 (2019)
The year 2018 will be remembered as one of the best years for beef producers in South Africa. Weaners fetched record prices; the price of stud animals, especially bulls, increased and in some cases almost doubled from previous years; and quality commercial cows fetched the same, if not better, prices than stud females. With a record price of R1,8 million being paid for a bull at the Up George Bonsmara production sale, we entered a new era in beef breeding. Beef producers were certainly experiencing a good year.
Die Bonsmara as ’n aantreklike voerkraalkalf
Authors: Izak Hofmeyr and Louis Steyl
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 7 –9 (2019)
Met ’n beraamde 70% en meer van Suid-Afrikaanse vleis wat afkomstig is van diere wat in ’n voerkraal gevoer was, is dit duidelik dat die meeste van ons land se grootveeprodusente hul grootste inkomste uit speenkalfverkope maak. Dit is dus uiters belangrik vir produsente om te verseker dat hulle speenkalwers kan lewer wat gesog is vir die mark en ’n goeie prys regverdig.
Bonsmara and long-term sustainability
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 11 –13 (2019)
Long-term sustainability in cattle breeds can be difficult to define. Some breeds have been around for thousands of years but may still be confined to a small area in their country of origin. These animals are more companion animals than cattle for commercial beef production, which should be a priority for any beef breed.
Bonsmaras bly op die voorpunt
Author Andries Gouws
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 15 –17 (2019)
Bonsmara-beeste presteer in enige deel van Suider-Afrika omdat die telers van dié ras deur die Bonsmara-stelsel verplig word om doeltreffend rekord van die diere se prestasie te hou en ’n streng keuringstelsel verseker dat net die beste diere vir teling beskikbaar is. Dit maak dit ook makliker vir dié telers om op die voorpunt van genetiese vordering en die aanwending van moderne tegnologie te bly.
The red meat industry in 2019 : what can we expect?
Author Frikkie Maré
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 19 –21 (2019)
This year certainly did not start on a high note in terms of price and, in some areas, climatic conditions, for South African red meat producers. A backwards glance shows us that 2018 did not end well either; in fact, prices and the weather have been far from ideal for the last four years.
Toetsstasie pluk die vrugte van genetiese vooruitgang
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 23 –25 (2019)
Die nuwe Bufland-prestasietoetsstasie naby Naboomspruit behaal klaar welslae om geneties meerderwaardige teeldiere te identifiseer om die vleisbeesbedryf in Limpopo te bevorder. Op ’n onlangse stoetveeveiling is die drie hoogste pryse behaal deur bulle wat die prestasietoets in dié stasie met vlieënde vaandels geslaag het.
Groot uitdagings vir Suid-Afrika se eie Texas
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 26 –29 (2019)
Vryburg se omgewing word as die Texas van Suid-Afrika beskryf, waar veral vleisbeeste en by uitstek Bonsmaras gedy. Die uitwerking van klimaatsverandering, hoër temperature en die wisseling in reënvalpatrone sal egter na verwagting groot eise aan Bonsmara-boere en die ras stel.
Pregnancy diagnosis : the basis for dry-season planning
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 30 –31 (2019)
There are a number of management action plans that must be implemented during the dry season. Pregnancy diagnosis (PD) by the veterinarian confirms the reproductive status of the cow herd and the results of the previous breeding season. It also measures the nutritional status (body condition score – BCS) of the animals at the start of the dry season.
Rooivleisproduksie en voedselsekerheid
Author W.A. Lombard
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 33 –35 (2019)
Dit word algemeen aanvaar dat Suid-Afrikaanse veeboere in ’n kuddeboufase moet wees om die uitgedunde kuddes ná die 2015/16-droogte voltallig te kry. Dit het veroorsaak dat bees- en skaappryse goed styg en in 2017 en 2018 teen hoër vlakke verhandel het. Soos wat verwag is, het die pryse van teelmateriaal ook goed versterk na die droogte, met veral vroulike diere wat baie duurder geraak het.
Carcass competitions and on-farm experience : the connection
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 37 –39 (2019)
The Bonsmara breed, through its breeders, has been a frontrunner in involvement with slaughter cattle shows run under the auspices of the South African Meat Industry Company (Samic) for more than 15 years.
Man must measure to move ahead
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 41 –43 (2019)
The Bonsmara breed has been successful in South Africa because of a system designed to ensure that the cattle farmer has good information on his herd and can select the top performers.
How herd health affects the bottom line
Author Ursula Human
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 45 –47 (2019)
Poor animal health is a major threat to the profitability of cattle farming. Bonsmara – Dié Rooi Ras/The Red Breed spoke to two veterinarians to discover the extent to which animal health impacts the profitability of a beef cattle enterprise. Dr Gustav Trümpelmann is a farmer and retired veterinarian in Lydenburg in Mpumalanga, and Dr Terence l’Ons is based at the Vaalharts Animal Hospital and Embryo Centre in Jan Kempdorp in the Northern Cape.
Create value for your consumer market
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 48 –49 (2019)
To remain viable, producers must ensure that they create value for the consumer with their products. When consumers evaluate available products (or services), they always consider the value (consumer value) that the consumption of each product presents.
Identifikasie van poena-status in die Bonsmara met behulp van DNS-tegnologie
Author Rulien Grobler
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 51 –53 (2019)
Die voordele van poenskopbeeste vir die kommersiële vleisbeesbedryf is alombekend en die druk vir meer menslike praktyke in terme van dierebehandeling word wêreldwyd hoër as gevolg van die impak op dierewelsyn. Hoewel die opsie daar is om kalwers te onthoring, dui navorsing aan dat dit ’n pynlike prosedure is, ten spyte van die tegnieke of voorsorgmaatreëls wat gebruik word.
The economic value of embryo flushing and transfer
Author Morné de la Rey
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 55 –59 (2019)
The technology of embryo transfer is widely acknowledged as the quickest and cheapest way to increase genetic gains in a female animal. Many leading dairy breeders use this technique to multiply the genetic stock of their top cows, either to increase milk production or to add solids to the milk.
The importance of genomic progress
Author Carin Venter
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 61 –61 (2019)
“Even with the best prediction for genetic merit, selection without a goal will lead to a wilderness. The saying goes something like: ‘If you aim at nothing, you will hit it all the time.’ Having the best and latest means of predicting an animal’s genetic merit for a series of traits is of little value if it does not form part of selection criteria and, more importantly, an overall goal. Such a goal will ensure longer-term and sustainable profit. However, defining goals is a discussion for another day.”
– Drs Japie van der Westhuizen, Bobbie van der Westhuizen and Helena Theron, SA Stud Book
Source: Dié Rooi Ras 3, pp 64 –69 (2019)
Voorslag farmers’ day
Suid-Kaap Bonsmara-klub boeredag
Frontier farmers’ day
Blarney Stone beef information day
Frontier emerging farmers’ day
Boshoff en Bloemendal Bonsmaras-boeredag
CUT field day
Aldam Stockman’s School