After more than a year in the planning and extensive training at the University of Fort Hare Animal Traction Centre (ATC), 6 young draft oxen arrived at Eric Swarts’s farm on Tuesday the 27th of January 2009. As part of a research programme to assess the potential of Draft Animal Traction in Sustainable Agriculture, the Sustainability Institute initiated the Animal Traction Research Programme early in 2008.
The team in action on Eric’s farm