This is evidence of how resources and management can affect cattle. You're right, they're doing the best with what they have to work with. Lots of room to improve the value of the cattle. I was really expecting more Ngunis. 😂 I'm very surprised. I imagine marketing any of these cattle will be tough.
I don't think the cattle are really marketed as such. Legally they have to be branded and most of these weren't... I think any sales would be for funerals etc.
Most of these farmers here in the Free State are Lesotho and Xhosa speaking people whom majority of them work in the mines as general labourers. As a person who farms with them, it is difficult to farm with most of them because there are some who dont believe in western medicine like having vaccination and deworming programme or having vets and farmers like you to come and advice on how to improve the quality of the animals so they just be not interested or not come at all. All in all your assessment is spot on. The grazing is not that good but the animals are surviving and yes I agree with you that most of these farmers myself included are not farming for business purposes but its a status thing, the more livestock you have, the more respect to get
Baie insiggewende video! Asseblief sê ook die afrikaanse name vir siektes ens waar moontlik Ek het ook gewonder hoekom hulle nie meer Nguni/Mashona tipe beeste het nie, maar die doekstorie verduidelik dit mooi 😅
Admirable, but not ideal. Hopefully, my people's culture will evolve to a point where all the communal farmers come together and form societies to manage the grass. In Transkie (Queenstown) communal land, my grandfather would regularly tell me that the apartheid government set up a grass management system that all households had to abide by (rotating all the cattle between paddocks). After 1994 unfortunately, the fences were removed and that system was abandoned, this devastated the cattle population as they were susceptible to drought. I do however believe that in a few centuries, the culture will evolve similar to the British experience after the Romans left. Initially, the Britsh went back to their traditional ways (building their houses with cow dung) after the Romans left because they were angry at the empire for destroying their historical way of life and the other tragedies that befall conquered people. Anyway to put the long story short, it took Native Brits over 1000 years before they let go of that anger and eventually internalize the valuable lessons they learned from the Romans. After this, they built on the Romans's works and before you know it, they had a global empire. This historical narrative teaches us that such transformations require patience and persistence. Anyhow, I wish the communal farms the all best.
The biggest challenge is to get them to work together. Nowadays access to information is easier than it's ever been. So if they could combine their herds and follow a rotational grazing program they should do better. It would be a win win situation.
Difficult to explain to some people that to restore pasture to its full potential YOU must be understocked by 1% x 365 days of the year. If you say to the land manager "you are overstocked" the reaction, if one of disbelief, indicates a lack of pasture management experience.
True. I follow the philosophy of " overgrazing is a function of time - rather than stocking density". There are more than enough examples out there - of farmers applying this method - who are successful and have pulled their businesses back from the brink of financial ruin. It works. We need to improve the health of our soils, which in turn will improve the quality of our grazing - which in turn will improve the quality of our animals. Thanks for your comment!
THERE are laws known as "the law of diminishing grasslands" + "the law of increasing grassland over time" = to understand both you must understand stocking rates and the amount of time grasslands need to recovery after grazing = you then choose which law suits you.
if this community just got together and got a tractor they would have winter supplement feed for all this herd. one side of this is as you said is that it builds hardiness, its unpalatable now, but this is Darwinism at work, if it continues long enough this can be a gene pool that will be crossed with fancy breeds for commercialisation. the problem with long enough is that it might be 1000yrs, and they wont have the consistency as we already see them being crossed by exports. thus specialization in communal areas might be a thing of the past
I'm not sure a tractor would help much. There wasn't enough rain this year to get in a winter crop. They would also need to remove a large part of the available grazing to put aside for planting - thus leaving the animals with even less feed....
I think rather incorrectly managed rather than mismanaged. There are no systems in place and I don't think the owners really know any better. Hopefully I'll be in a position to advise them in the near future.
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Thank you for the kind words and apologies for any offence - none was intended. The channel is for all who follow it. References made are for the benefit of those overseas who don't know our country or understand it's intricacies. But thank you for pointing that out - I'll make a point of being more aware of how my references may negatively affect others.
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This is evidence of how resources and management can affect cattle. You're right, they're doing the best with what they have to work with. Lots of room to improve the value of the cattle.
I was really expecting more Ngunis. 😂 I'm very surprised.
I imagine marketing any of these cattle will be tough.
I don't think the cattle are really marketed as such. Legally they have to be branded and most of these weren't...
I think any sales would be for funerals etc.
Most of these farmers here in the Free State are Lesotho and Xhosa speaking people whom majority of them work in the mines as general labourers.
As a person who farms with them, it is difficult to farm with most of them because there are some who dont believe in western medicine like having vaccination and deworming programme or having vets and farmers like you to come and advice on how to improve the quality of the animals so they just be not interested or not come at all.
All in all your assessment is spot on.
The grazing is not that good but the animals are surviving and yes I agree with you that most of these farmers myself included are not farming for business purposes but its a status thing, the more livestock you have, the more respect to get
Thanks for the comment. Yes, I can see that some keep cattle for status. It's a pity that they aren't more open to suggestions though.
Thanks so much for the video! It's not easy to get this kind of content and honest commentary.
Thanks for your positive comments! I call it as I see it while still trying to be fair and kind. It's tough but they still do better than expected.
Baie insiggewende video! Asseblief sê ook die afrikaanse name vir siektes ens waar moontlik
Ek het ook gewonder hoekom hulle nie meer Nguni/Mashona tipe beeste het nie, maar die doekstorie verduidelik dit mooi 😅
Dankie Janco vir jou deelname! Ek sal beslis kyk om in die toekoms die afrikaanse name ook te gebruik!
By looking at this animals(horns and bone structures) some are from dairy breed genes which they don't retakn fats, they are thin by nature.
There are definately some dairy crosses! Difficult to fatten.
Admirable, but not ideal. Hopefully, my people's culture will evolve to a point where all the communal farmers come together and form societies to manage the grass. In Transkie (Queenstown) communal land, my grandfather would regularly tell me that the apartheid government set up a grass management system that all households had to abide by (rotating all the cattle between paddocks). After 1994 unfortunately, the fences were removed and that system was abandoned, this devastated the cattle population as they were susceptible to drought. I do however believe that in a few centuries, the culture will evolve similar to the British experience after the Romans left. Initially, the Britsh went back to their traditional ways (building their houses with cow dung) after the Romans left because they were angry at the empire for destroying their historical way of life and the other tragedies that befall conquered people. Anyway to put the long story short, it took Native Brits over 1000 years before they let go of that anger and eventually internalize the valuable lessons they learned from the Romans. After this, they built on the Romans's works and before you know it, they had a global empire. This historical narrative teaches us that such transformations require patience and persistence. Anyhow, I wish the communal farms the all best.
The biggest challenge is to get them to work together. Nowadays access to information is easier than it's ever been. So if they could combine their herds and follow a rotational grazing program they should do better.
It would be a win win situation.
Difficult to explain to some people that to restore pasture to its full potential YOU must be understocked by 1% x 365 days of the year. If you say to the land manager "you are overstocked" the reaction, if one of disbelief, indicates a lack of pasture management experience.
True. I follow the philosophy of " overgrazing is a function of time - rather than stocking density". There are more than enough examples out there - of farmers applying this method - who are successful and have pulled their businesses back from the brink of financial ruin. It works.
We need to improve the health of our soils, which in turn will improve the quality of our grazing - which in turn will improve the quality of our animals.
Thanks for your comment!
THERE are laws known as "the law of diminishing grasslands" + "the law of increasing grassland over time" = to understand both you must understand stocking rates and the amount of time grasslands need to recovery after grazing = you then choose which law suits you.
Thanks. Never heard of them but I'll be sure to google it.
@@shanecotty3275 these are new laws - so you wont find them
if this community just got together and got a tractor they would have winter supplement feed for all this herd. one side of this is as you said is that it builds hardiness, its unpalatable now, but this is Darwinism at work, if it continues long enough this can be a gene pool that will be crossed with fancy breeds for commercialisation. the problem with long enough is that it might be 1000yrs, and they wont have the consistency as we already see them being crossed by exports. thus specialization in communal areas might be a thing of the past
I'm not sure a tractor would help much. There wasn't enough rain this year to get in a winter crop. They would also need to remove a large part of the available grazing to put aside for planting - thus leaving the animals with even less feed....
More like custom grazing but still mismanaged
I think rather incorrectly managed rather than mismanaged. There are no systems in place and I don't think the owners really know any better.
Hopefully I'll be in a position to advise them in the near future.
My brother, thank you so much for a great channel.. but just a few words , kindly refrain from using race when you engage on the content.. “black lady, they discriminate their own. Black wealth people”.. as a person who educating we don’t see skin colour in you, we follow your content with a perception that it covering all people.. if you say it is design for a particular race plz let us know..
Thank you for the kind words and apologies for any offence - none was intended.
The channel is for all who follow it. References made are for the benefit of those overseas who don't know our country or understand it's intricacies.
But thank you for pointing that out - I'll make a point of being more aware of how my references may negatively affect others.