Agri FARMACY Professional Services Inc. provides an extensive range of value added and qualified services as per our client’s needs.
Agri FARMACY Nutritional Services
Our Nutritional
Services include
the following:
Our qualified animal scientist and nutritional consultant provide tailored on-farm feed solutions, quality control, and staff training to optimise herd health, productivity, and profitability. Services offered include:
- Personalized on-farm dietary consulting and support
- Developing feed plans and nutritional programs
- Parameter evaluation
- Formulation of feed rations
- Testing of feed
- Evaluating the chemical composition and nutritional value of raw materials, finished feed and other supplements
- Maintaining the quality control of certain feeds
- Investigating nutritional disorders
- Ingredient input cost reviews and best cost formulation of diets.
- Quality control analysis of feed manufacturing procedures.
- Setup, review and audit implementation of feeding programs in farms- reviewing client production data & identify opportunities to increase profits through management practice changes to improve productivity or reduce input costs.
- Farm visits to clients to consult with farm managers on all areas of production including Breeding, Gestation, Farrowing, Nursery & Finishing.
- Demonstrating and leading improvement strategies for client farms.
- Client staff training on essential production and leadership skills.
- Troubleshooting production challenges at production units.
- Review and implement best practice & technology.
- Animal nutritional services to small feed mills
- Act 36 of 1947 farm feed registration assistance and documentation sign off and approval
Our Team Of Animal Nutrition Specialists
Fred Bechaz
Animal Scientist (Pr.Sci.Nat 400180/10)
Fred Bechaz obtained his MSc. Animal Science (Agric) in 2001 from the University of Pretoria. Fred joined our team in 2001 and consults primarily to the swine industry. He has a sound knowledge and understanding of vitamin and mineral premixes, animal nutrition and management aspects on swine farms.
He works very closely with the consulting veterinarians on the specific farms to ensure that optimal results are achieved. Fred currently consults to many commercial swine farms with different genetics, including DanBred and PIC genetics.
Simon Kemp
Animal Scientist (M. Agric)
Simon Kemp is a director of FarmVision. He has graduated from the University of the Free State with a MSA Agric (Master of sustainable Agriculture) degree. He specialises in Pasture science and Animal science.
Simon is involved at several dairy farmers where he does fodder flow planning, production planning and advice, animal nutrition and economic evaluation of dairy enterprises. He is as nutritionist involved at sheep and beef feedlots.
He also specialises in determination of carrying capacity, farm planning and management of veld and pastures. He was also involved in the planning of several agricultural projects in the dairy industry in Southern Africa.
Tihanja Coetzee
Animal Scientist (BSc Animal Science [Agric])
Tihanja obtained a diploma in Nature Conservation from the Tshwane University of Technology (2002) and worked as a nature guide before completing a BSc Animal Science (Agric) at the University of Pretoria (2006–2009). She went on to work as a Dairy & Herd Manager on a privately-owned farm, overseeing milking, dairy maintenance, staff management and animal husbandry. As a qualified cattle AI practitioner (with additional training in sheep AI), she also led herd management for fertility and reproduction.
Tihanja left the dairy in 2019 to focus on her growing family, doing private consulting for subsistence and emerging farmers in northern Namibia in her spare time. She joined the Lavendula team in 2022 as an animal nutrition technical advisor.