Event

Feedlot Information Day | 23 June 2023
FEEDLOT INFORMATION DAY CSIR LYNNWOOD, PRETORIA, EXHIBITION HALL 23 June 20 There will be several well-known guest speakers, including an international guest speaker. We are very excited about this event with all the guest speakers that will perform. A well known guest speaker will be Dr. Chris Reinhardt. A little bit of background about him. Zinpro Corporation is proud to announce that Dr. Chris Reinhardt, Ph.D., – among the world’s most prominent authorities on nutrition, management, and heat stress in feedlot cattle – has joined the company as a technical beef feedlot nutritionist. In this position, Dr. Reinhardt provides research and technical support services to the company’s beef feedlot customers across the globe. Based in Texas, USA, he contributes to the company’s beef feedlot research and develops technical business solutions to enhance customer satisfaction. Octavoscene had several requests to host another Feedlot Information Day. We would like to have an indication of who will be able to attend this awesome day with us. We will host the event this year again at the CSIR Pretoria. Would you please be so kind as to inform us on or before Monday, 15 May 2023, if you could attend? Kind Regards. Jurené BothaContact Number: 087 237 9995WhatsApp: 082-059 8214Email: orders@octavoscene.co.za
Octavoscene | 10th Anniversary
2019 Marks our 10th Anniversary since the business was established in 2009 in September by the former founding Director, Martiens Booysen. Dr Shaun Morris (BVSc (Hons) MSc Agric), a specialist feedlot expert and veterinarian took over from Martiens Booysen in 2018. Dr Shaun Morris | Director Dr Shaun Morris qualified in 1990 as a veterinarian from the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science. He went on to study further and got his Honours degree in 1993 from the University of Pretoria in Production Animal Medicine. Awarded his MSc from the same University in 1997. Dr Morris started his own consultancy as a feedlot specialist in 2000 and has been working as such ever since. He is a member to the following Organisations: The Academy of Veterinary Consultants in the USA RuVASA (Ruminant Veterinary Association of South Africa) The American Association of Bovine Practitioners He has recently been invited to join the Production Animal Consultancy Group in the USA. He has contributed to 12 scientifically reviewed publications. Since 2012 has successfully run the Feedlot School at Onderstepoort, University of Pretoria, focusing on exposing final year veterinary students to intensive animal medicine He has also been involved in The Dairy School at Onderstepoort, University of Pretoria, for final year veterinary science students. We are delighted to have reached this milestone, especially in such a competitive marketplace, and are happy to be able to celebrate with our valued partners, customers and friends from all over in South-Africa. The […]