Our Story

RMIS exists to strengthen and future-proof South Africa’s Red Meat industry.

About Us

Red Meat Industry Services (RMIS) is a service-driven organisation delivering practical solutions and tangible impact across South Africa’s red meat value chain. We work hands-on with producers, feedlots, auction houses, abattoirs, and decision-makers to build a resilient, competitive, and future-ready industry.

Our work spans on-the-ground services and strategic systems — from deploying biosecurity marshals and supporting animal health technicians to developing traceability tools, forecasting models, and data-driven insights.

We don’t just serve the industry — we unite it. RMIS brings together key role players, promotes informed action, and amplifies the sector’s collective voice. By combining deep expertise, grassroots engagement, and future-focused strategy, we help shape a thriving red meat sector for generations to come.

Our Story

We are the only organisation with the national mandate to implement the Red Meat Industry Strategy 2030 – and the only one designed to serve the entire value chain, from primary producers to feedlots, auction houses, abattoirs, and beyond.

This mandate is made possible by the statutory levy paid by all producers. It is this levy that gives RMIS its authority – and its responsibility – to act on behalf of the industry. The levy is not a tax; it’s an investment in shared progress, used to fund vital work that no single stakeholder can do alone.

We are not a policy think tank or a disconnected boardroom. We’re a service-driven team grounded in reality – present in the field, listening to producers, solving practical problems, and acting where it counts.

From data and research to market development and crisis response, the levy is what fuels our ability to lead, coordinate, and implement.

The Red Meat Industry Services (RMIS) was therefore founded in 2022. The RMIS operates at the intersection of innovation and tradition leveraging government approved statutory levies to drive impactful services throughout the sector.

Why RMIS matters

South Africa’s red meat industry faces real challenges: disease risks, shifting market demands, inconsistent standards, and limited access to trusted information. RMIS was established to close these gaps – to deliver practical, research-backed, and locally relevant solutions that help all role players grow stronger together.

Our mandate is clear:

Implement the Red Meat Industry Strategy 2030 in a way that creates real impact.
Build a resilient, competitive, and sustainable industry from the ground up.
Unify the sector through practical tools, credible insights, and boots-on-the-ground services.
Ensure that producers’ voices are heard – not just at meetings, but in decisions that shape the future.

Who we serve

We serve the entire value chain – including:

Primary producers
Feedlots
Auction houses
Abattoirs

Whether it’s deploying biosecurity marshals, equipping farmers with early-warning disease forecasts, or rolling out traceability systems, RMIS acts where it matters most — on the ground, with the people who grow and move this industry every day.

Where we come from

In recent years the red meat industry structure underwent a breakthrough intervention shifting the sector from working in silos towards an increasingly collaborative effort.

The primary value chain came together as the Red Meat and Livestock Primary Cluster (RMPC) to establish a not-for-profit company that is responsible for fulfilling services within the value chain from the farmer to the abattoir. The RMPC consist of the following organisations:

Red Meat Producer’s Organisation (RPO)
National Emergent Red Meat Producer’s Organisation (NERPO)
South African Feedlot Association (SAFA)
Red Meat Abbatoir Association (RMAA)

These services are driven by the Red Meat Industry Strategy 2030, which is written to align with the government’s Agriculture Agro-processing master plan (AAMP). The RMIS will act as the industry champion to operationally drive the strategy, partnering and collaborating with the red meat value chain actors and all spheres of government.