{"id":368950,"date":"2026-01-14T07:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368950\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:56:15","slug":"agriculture-minister-to-brief-on-fmd-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368950\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Minister to brief on FMD status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA &#8211; Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen will update on the status of foot and mouth disease.<\/p>\n<p>He will outline the strategy and timelines for vaccination to achieve a disease-free livestock industry.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/business\/agriculture-minister-calls-compliance-fmd-control-measures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agriculture minister calls for compliance with FMD control measures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The briefing comes as the disease continues to spread in various parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, and the North West have been most affected.<\/p>\n<p>The government is expected to begin vaccinating animals next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRETORIA &#8211; Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen will update on the status of foot and mouth disease. He will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-368950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}