The 22nd annual Minard Livestock Show and Beef Festival, slated for Minard Estate in Brown’s Town, St Ann, on November 9, promises to be an educational extravaganza for students of all ages. More than 8,000 students, representing up to 300 schools.
The Jamaica Red Poll Cattle breed is a successful joint product of the public and private sectors of Jamaica, with the public sector having contributed through a critical mass of professional and technical personnel, as well as policy directives,.
Wherever he is now, T.P. Lecky would be rightly vexed, and other Jamaicans ought to be humiliated, by the advice of an American cattleman that the island should import breeding bulls to improve its cattle stock. The suggestion by Casey Jentz is not.
Chronic short-sightedness is one of our biggest Achilles heels. It is an open secret that our growth and development are being severely retarded by an oversupply of myopic thinkers whose default p.
With the resurgence of interest in cattle rearing locally, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pearnel Charles Jr, says the ministry will be injecting significant resources to ensure that the industry continues to rebound.
"There’s a resurgen