Animal Feed & Nutritional Solutions
Lavendula Animal Feed & Nutrition provides customised nutritional solutions to optimise livestock performance, improve efficiency and maximise production returns.
Founded in 1997 by Dr Pieter Grimbeek, Lavendula was established with a vision to increase on-farm impact while delivering innovative, science-based services to the animal health and nutrition market.
Our qualified animal scientist and nutritional consultant provide practical, on-farm expertise, underpinned by sound scientific knowledge. Through tailored nutritional strategies and advice, Lavendula helps producers improve efficiency and achieve their production goals.
Working with leading partners in premix manufacturing, specialised ingredients and feed concentrate supply, Lavendula delivers reliable nutritional solutions to address a wide range of production challenges.
Lavendula serves clients across Southern Africa, with its headquarters in Potchefstroom, North West Province, South Africa.
The Lavendula
Product Offerings
Consist of:
A customised diet is formulated to accommodate the client’s unique production systems and the available raw materials to enable the animals to unlock their genetic potential.
The Lavendula Nutritional team is able to formulate custom diets for a specific farm, based on the following:
Feed additives
Customized diets formulations
Raw materials
Raw materials
Formulated vitamins & trace mineral premixes
- Raw materials availability, cost and quality
- Specific needs of the different species, breeds and production levels of the animals
- The environmental and housing aspects are also taken into consideration
- Not just looking at cost formulations but formulating cost efficient diets, which ensures that the animals produce as close to their genetic potential as possible and efficiently.
- Efficiency on the farm is a closely intertwined circle between nutrition, management, genetics and health.
- When the right balance of the above is achieved, the system runs as a “well-oiled machine”.
Lavendula
Product Range
Feel free to contact us for more information on the range
Tel: +27 18 297 8155
info@agrifarmacysa.co.za
Beef Cattle
Beef Cattle Product Range
The product range consists of:
- Milk replacer
- Beef cattle finishing
- Beef cattle supplementation:
- Winter (Dry) licks with phosphate
- Winter (Dry) licks without phosphate
- Summer veld / green pasture licks
- Trace mineral lick block supplement
Dairy Cattle
Dairy Cattle Product Range
The product range consists of:
- Milk replacer
- Calves & heifer feed
- Beef cattle supplementation:
- Rearing of calves (birth – 6 months)
- Winter (Dry) licks without phosphate
- Summer veld / green pasture licks
- Trace mineral lick block supplement
Feel free to contact us for more information on the range
Small Stock
Small Stock Product Range
The product range consists of:
- Milk replacer
- Growing out & finishing:
- Sheep Feedlot Concentrate
- Chocolate Grain Concentrate
- Sheep & small stock supplements:
- Creep Feeds
- Winter (Dry) veld licks with phosphate
- Winter (Dry) veld licks without phosphate
- Summer veld / green planted pasture licks
Swine
Swine Product Range
The product range consists of:
- Pig production feed
- Feeds for mature pigs
- Feeds for growing pigs
- Fishmeal replacement
Feel free to contact us for more information on the range
Poultry
Poultry Product Range
The product range consists of:
- Feed for broilers
- Feed for layers
- Fishmeal replacement
Game
Game Product Range
The product range consists of:
- Complete Feeds & Licks for Game
- Trace Mineral Supplement for Game
Feel free to contact us for more information on the range
Our dedicated
Lavendula team
Our experienced animal scientists and nutritional consultants use their expertise to formulate practical, on-farm nutritional solutions.
The Lavendula team further coordinates and supports all feed quality testing and diagnostic requirements.
Dr Pieter Grimbeek
Founder of Mooivet (1985)
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.
+27 18 297 8155
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.
+27 82 490 1754
Tihanja Coetzee
Animal Scientist (BSc Animal Science [Agric])
Tihanja obtained a diploma in Nature Conservation from the Tshwane University of Technology in 2002, and worked as a nature guide until 2005, after which she obtained a BSc Animal Science (Agric) at the University of Pretoria (2006 - 2009). She expands her experience as a Diary & Herd Manager at a privately-owned farm focusing on milking process, dairy maintenance, staff management and animal husbandry. As a qualified cattle artificial insemination (AI) practitioner, she also took lead on herd management pertaining to fertility and reproduction. She also completed a course in sheep AI. Tihanja left the dairy in 2019 to tend to her own growing family and continued to do private consulting for subsistence and emerging farmers in the far north of Namibia in her spare time. She joined the Lavendula team in 2022 as an animal nutrition technical advisor.