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product range was launched a few months ago .
The farm has awesome views of the surrounding Witzenberg Mountains . Farming on approximately 350 ha , they use the farm to raise cattle and they plant wheat , oats , and maize as feed for the herds .
According to Paul , he and his partner , Barnard van Eeden , needed a tractor to do the daily chores on the farm where they breed Black Angus cattle for the meat market .
“ Because we farm on a relatively small scale in comparison to other farmers in the area , we did not need a big , expensive tractor . Barnard already has some of those huge tractors , but for our purposes here , it would have been unnecessary to
spend a lot of money on another big one ,” he joked .
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Paul explained that he used to farm on a small piece of land nearby . With the drought of 2018 , however , he had to either reduce the 30 head of cattle he had at the time or find additional land to give them more grazing options . He had met Barnard before and together they had a look at this land and decided to become business partners . Now they have approximately 350 ha and they raise 300 head of cattle for the local meat market .
” We have bulls with the cows all year round and therefore we can determine when we want to sell
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