Passion and discipline drive young cattle farmer’s success

Kgomotso Bantsho, a cattle farmer in Vorstershoop in North West, says his aim is to produce weaners with heavy carcass weights within the shortest period possible.

He does this through careful selection for proven genetics and by placing emphasis on using top bulls.

Bantsho first started farming as a hobby in 2011 when he bought goats from his late father, who had decided at the time to retire from being a part-time smallholder.

In 2017, Bantsho left his job as a supply chain manager and started farming full-time. “After I bought my father’s goat farming business I continued to work and employed a farm manager to take care of the piece of veld near Morokweng, situated on communal land, which I inherited from my father,”