# The Department of Agriculture will soon introduce new rules to control the movement of cloven-hoofed livestock in a bid to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. This follows an outbreak at the largest beef producer, Karan Beef, which confirmed infections at its Heidelberg feedlot in Gauteng. The new measures will require supervised animal movement and health checks to stop further outbreaks. The department blames the outbreak on commercial farms ignoring biosecurity rules to chase profits.
Foot-and-mouth crackdown looms as government plans national livestock movement controls