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1911
3 October 1986
2024
This exotic shrub can be used as feed during drought. But beware – it's a highly invasive pest plant. For the most part, mesquite is bad news for farmers. It can become an uncontrollable menace. Yet farmers in the Northern Cape, forced by drought to seek alternative stock feeds, are feeding the pods to small stock.
Milled mesquite pods have a feed value of about 85% that of maize. They have 11,7% digestible protein, 71,6%
