Feeding Baby Birds

Feeding Baby Birds

By Rick Kleyn, Animal Nutritionist It is that time of the year where many small birds, mostly passerines, are found “abandoned” by their parents in streets and gardens all over the country. Out of their love for birds, people tend to bring these helpless...
Biofuels and Agribusiness

Biofuels and Agribusiness

By Rick Kleyn, SPESFEED (Pty) Ltd, South Africa. Biofuels are truly the topic de jure in agricultural circles. It is likely to be the single most important event in agriculture for decades. Those of us involved in Agribusiness need to have a grasp of what this...
Wildlife nutrition & feeding

Wildlife nutrition & feeding

By Brett Roosendaal, SPESFEED cc, Nutritional Consultants, P.O. Box 10294, Rivonia 2128. Tel: (011) 803 2050. In their natural environment wild species have little need for supplementary feeding as their free ranging habits enable them to pursue more nutritious...
To be or not to be – integrated

To be or not to be – integrated

By Rick Kleyn Writing editorial comment is a fairly daunting task for someone who normally writes quasi-scientific articles. In this forum I am allowed to express an opinion without having to backup any claims or ideas in any way at all. For this reason I thought that...