The Urban Farmer technical team thoroughly enjoyed attending the 41st WPSA Scientific Symposium (WPSA) South Africa conference on the 4th and 5th of March 2025 The Programme featured a diverse range of high-quality presentations from leading local and international experts, making it a significant event on the poultry industry calendar and […]
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Urban Farmer welcomed Suné Pretorius, Marne Visagie and Richard Bownes to the team. Suné joins Urban Farmer as a Commercial Nutritionist. Previously Suné worked for a multi-national premix company for 10 years where she served Urban Farmer as its account manager for the last 6 years. Suné joins Urban […]
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In March 2025, Urban Farmer hosted its country managers from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe in Johannesburg, South Africa. Urban Farmer relies on its partners and their local teams to offer transactional and technical support to its customers in these key territories. The Subsidiary Week affords Urban Farmer the […]
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As of February 2025, Proudly Poultry II has been launched in all three target countries namely Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Our full team of14 trainers are actively hosting weekly training sessions with their farmers. Proudly Poultry II aims for 1350 farmers to complete a 6-week poultry production course. U-MIX have […]
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Urban Farmer Zambia hosted a Dairy Farmers Day on 20th March 2025 at the Protea Hotel (Arcades) in Lusaka, Zambia. The event brought together industry partners and local dairy farmers and highlighted the importance of sustainable farming practices, animal health and animal nutrition on a dairy farm. Representatives from Trouw Nutrition, ABS Genus and Adisseo joined the […]
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Ten years after incorporating its first subsidiary, Steven, Michael, and Kate gathered with the team in Lusaka to mark the renaming of Isibaya Holdings to Urban Farmer Zambia. The occasion was marked by an event hosted at the Urban Hotel on the 14 th of November 2024 and attended […]
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We are proud to announce the launch of the second iteration of the Proudly Poultry campaign. After training over 2300 farmers in six African countries during the first Proudly Poultry campaign, the opportunity to deepen and increase impact in future campaigns was explored. Proudly Poultry II has seen […]
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Steven Payne and Kelvin Pieterse were privileged to join other private and public sector stakeholders at the Poultry Futures Forum hosted in Dar es Salaam on the 16th and 17th of October 2024. The Forum was convened by the Government of Tanzania, the Food Action Alliance, and AGRA with the […]
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South Africa On the 3 rd of December 2024 the team from Urban Farmer South Africa gathered for its final company meeting of the year at its new office in Centurion. The new office situated in the Regency Pavilion within the popular Route 21 Business Park is a result of […]
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Steven Payne founded Urban Farmer in 2009 with the vision to enable the production of affordable, safe, high quality animal protein in Africa, for Africa. Fifteen years later the founding members: Steven, Kate and Michael, remain committed to this vision. Urban Farmer supplies products but is committed to offering […]
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