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31/10/2025
📘 AFMA Matrix – January 2026 Edition
The new year edition of AFMA Matrix is coming soon! It’s packed with insights on the animal feed and livestock industries, including AFMA AGM highlights, agricultural outlooks, antibiotic-free farming, feed contamination, and much more.
Make sure your company or story is featured in this industry-focused publication reaching more than 8 500 readers across South Africa.
📩 For contributions and advertising enquiries, contact Plaas Media
30/10/2025
📢 Career Opportunity
💼 Position: Technical Advisor – Animal Feeds
🏢 Company: AFGRI Animal Feeds
📍 Location: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
🗓️ Closing date: 12 November 2025
🚀AFMA Committee Meetings: Driving industry progress
AFMA hosted a dynamic series of Committee Meetings this week, connecting with more than 160 members and industry partners in energetic discussions on AFMA’s key strategic priorities.
The meetings showcased strong collaboration, shared insight, and a collective drive to advance the animal feed sector.
Key discussion topics included:
✔ ITAC’s mandate and tariff review process
✔ JSE listing of soybean oilcake.
✔ Updated feed regulations and proposed feed legislative framework
✔ SAIF’s role in strengthening government engagement.
✔ Industry AMR Alliance & responsible antimicrobial use.
✔ Food Loss & Waste: Safe inclusion of recycled food products in feed.
✔ Benchmarking the modernized AFMA Code of conduct audit scope.
✔ Progress and value of Feed Mill Operator Blended Learning Program
✔ Professional registration and student engagement etc.
These discussions reaffirm AFMA’s commitment to collaboration, responsible feed manufacturing, and continuous sector advancement.
Animal Feed Manufacturers Association - AFMA
22/10/2025
💡 Myth vs Fact: AFMA Feed Mill Operator Training
❎Myth:
Enrolling feed mill operators in the blended learning programme means revealing company secrets.
✅Fact:
The AFMA Feed Mill Operator Programme upskills your workforce and strengthens your team – without sharing internal strategies or intellectual property.
Training focuses on operational efficiency, safety standards, and quality control, ensuring operators gain industry-relevant skills while aligning with your company’s needs.
Invest in your team. Build your company’s future. Strengthen the feed industry.
Animal Feed Manufacturers Association - AFMA AgriJob
17/10/2025
🎓 Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry 🌾
Today, Dr Lucius Phaleng, AFMA's Trade Advisor, addressed students at the University of Limpopo on the importance of connecting classroom knowledge with real-world industry opportunities.
His talk highlighted how students can prepare for meaningful careers in the animal feed and broader agricultural sectors - by engaging with industry initiatives, internships, and professional networks that bring theory to life.
👏 A big thank you to the University of Limpopo for hosting this valuable session and to all the students who participated with such enthusiasm!
Animal Feed Manufacturers Association - AFMA
17/10/2025
🏆🌟 REMINDER: Round 1 of the AFMA Intervarsity Writers Cup closes 21 October! 🌟🏆
Calling all final-year animal science and postgraduate nutrition science students - this is your chance to showcase your writing talent, boost your professional profile, and compete for exciting prizes!
🕒 Don’t wait - submit your entry before the deadline!
Animal Feed Manufacturers Association - AFMA AgriJob Itau Animal Feeds
15/10/2025
🎓 Build Your Future in Feed Milling
Enrolment is now open for the AFMA-endorsed Feed Mill Operator Blended Learning Programme – a six-month, work-integrated course that combines theory with hands-on experience at your own feed mill.
🎓 What you’ll gain:
• Safe and efficient feed production skills
• Material handling & equipment operation
• Batching, mixing & pelleting processes
• Quality control & team leadership
This programme turns your workplace into a training facility, giving your team practical skills to perform confidently and safely.
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The Animal Feed Manufacturers Association of South Africa (AFMA), is the official industry representative body of the South African feed industry in the livestock feed sector and larger agricultural environment.
As the official representative body for the sector, AFMA positions and aligns itself by identifying the business environment that will benefit its members. This is achieved through its liaison and cooperation with various directly affected groups. These include government departments; regulatory decision-makers; parastatals; forums; related associations, and value chain partners both locally and internationally.
VISION
To enhance and support a sustainable industry that acts responsibly within the food chain by ensuring safe feed for safe food.
MISSION
AFMA strives for the realisation of its vision by:
- Lobbying, liaising and cooperating with government departments; regulatory decision-makers; parastatals; forums; related associations; value chain partners, international agencies and related role players.
- Providing management information to members, industry and other role players.
- Influencing and managing factors which have a bearing on industry costs.
- Creating awareness among industry role players of threats and opportunities facing the industry, and formulating unified action plans accordingly.
- Promoting AFMA’s image – “Safe Feed for Safe Food”.
PROFILE
AFMA acts on behalf of, and represents, the animal feed industry on various platforms and committees to enhance, protect and ensure the present and future interests of the industry. These activities also include liaison and engagements on all levels, i.e. liaising, workshopping, debating and lobbying with the following primary interest groups:
- Regulatory bodies.
- Academia.
- Industry participants.
In this process, attention is focused upon:
- The feed regulatory environment.
- The research and technical environment.
- The commodity trading environment.
- Communication to members and the wider industry.
AFMA MEMBERSHIP
Who may apply? AFMA’s Memorandum of Incorporation makes provision for two categories of membership, i.e. ‘Full’ and ‘Associate’ membership.
Full membership: Manufacturers of complete animal feeds.
Associate membership: This category includes service providers and input suppliers to the animal feed industry. This includes suppliers of raw materials, traders, suppliers of premixes, feed additives and veterinary products, equipment suppliers, laboratories, transport and other services providers.
Benefits of membership
- Access to all AFMA general meetings, committee meetings and subcommittee meetings, where matters concerning the feed industry are discussed.
- Access to all information related to AFMA committee meetings.
- Receiving agendas of all meetings and reports on discussions.
- Access to animal feed sales and raw materials utilisation statistics in the industry, which are published on the AFMA website.
- Access to, and participation in, joint actions regarding industry-related matters. These include animal feed regulations, import tariffs, SADC negotiations, EU negotiations, and other events where the interests of the entire industry are addressed.
- Access to AFMA congresses, symposia and workshops at reduced prices.
- Access to the AFMA Feed Registration Service for assistance with the submission of feed registration applications required in terms of the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act 36, of 1947.
- Discounted prices for advertorials and advertisements in the quarterly AFMA magazine, the AFMA Matrix.
- Advertising of job opportunities and/or vacancies at member companies on the AFMA website and social media platforms, at no charge.
- Voting rights at the Annual General Meeting (this the only benefit from which Associate members are excluded).
Membership fees
Membership fees are determined annually during the AFMA Annual General Meeting. Visit www.afma.co.za for the latest membership fee structure and application form.
AFMA Code of Conduct
Full and Associate membership of AFMA is subject to complying with the provisions of the AFMA Code of Conduct. Both Full and Associate members need to be audited by an independent third-party within three months of membership application.
Once members have been audited according to the AFMA Code of Conduct and found to be compliant with this code, AFMA membership will be confirmed and a certificate of compliance will be awarded.
* Please note: Audit fees are not included in the membership fees.
CORE VALUE PROPOSITIONS
An Association that offers:
a. Direct access to the highest level of feed regulators and legislators;
b. Access to the largest pool of technical knowledge on animal nutrition;
c. A technical platform that monitors and reports on the latest international and local developments in animal nutrition;
d. A Feed Registration Service, with direct access to Government;
e. Technical sub-committees working continuously on the latest technical variables in the animal nutrition environment;
f. A combined source of expertise and knowledge on trade and procurement related matters;
g. Direct access to the highest authorities on trade and Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) matters to facilitate international trade;
h. International and local benchmarking on feed manufacturing disciplines and costs;
i. Annual publication of the most recent local and global feed outlook;
j. Publication of industry statistics in accordance to local Competition Law;
k. Keeping members informed on the latest international animal nutrition trends through the hosting of:
i. Symposia;
ii. Workshops;
iii. Seminars;
iv. Industry days;
v. Industry training sessions; and
vi. Interactions with tertiary institutions.
l. Development of feed and related training courses and material leading to accredited national qualifications; and
m. Representation at an international level within global bodies and institutions in the animal nutrition arena.
