ETZEL WAKEFIELD

Procuring post-mortem meat (beef, equine).
Supply meat to various carnivore institutions such as zoo’s, predator parks, rehab reservations and privately owned carnivore farms. Critical stakeholder management and efficiency of business operations control.

Development of a wholesale broiler farm in Botswana.
Rearing day-old chicks to 2.5 kg live.
Management of +- 5000 birds per cycle of 42 days. Management of staff training and business operations. Transport and logistics of chickens to abattoir.
New business/client development.
Supplying Food lovers Market Centre, hotels, and lodges.
Procuring of chicks from hatcheries.
Control feeding, disease prevention and detection. Temperature and animal welfare management

Management of government meat supply contracts, Johannesburg Zoo and Pretoria Zoo, Lory park zoo, lions rock rehab center and Moholoholo game and rescue center in Hoedspruit.
Procurement of product, logistical management, meat quality assurance control for predator feeding and welfare.
Financial management of business to assure profit margins and cost control targets are met. Employed and worked with a medium team.

Buying of cattle hides, since 1994 from abattoirs/farms.
Exporting to the leather industry in South Africa, China, and Turkey – 30 tons per month.

Import and export business management of hides in, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and South Africa.
Management of all operations, staff management, logistics and import/export requirements.

Business operations control of wholesale cut flowers to florist’s country wide, large events and the public. Buying wholesale at Multiflora City Deep auction daily.
Controlling orders and attending wholesale market auctions for bulk product procurement. Cultivating various foliage and flowers on small farm.
Staff schedules and transport logistics managed.

Developed a new area for the company, opening 7 strategically placed distribution depots and appointing a depot manager in each. Supervise and communicate work schedules and targets for the 7 depot managers retailing hybrid vegetable seeds (Peto seed), agricultural chemicals and fertilizers.
Agricultural advisor to farmers and commercial vegetable seedling nurseries on seed selection, soil management and plant specific chemicals and fertilizers

Agricultural advisor and sales of agricultural chemicals (fungicides, herbicides, pesticides, and growth stimulants) and foliar and soil fertilizers, including biological pest control. We also started doing trails in the wheat production areas on the “no till “principle, leading to the modern-day practice called “regenerative” farming. Crops included vineyards, stone fruit- pears, apples, peaches, prunes, plums etc., as well as wheat and barley.

Agricultural advisor and sales of agricultural chemicals, the full range, as well as foliar feeds. Crops included cotton, wheat, lucerne, maize, barley, and minimal vegetable plantings.

Worked for Vleis Sentraal on all the operational facets, from receiving, slaughter line, quality control of the slaughterers. Accompany the Abbacor staff during the grading process of the customers animals, being it cattle, sheep, goats, or pigs. Completing all the cold weighing of the customers produce before they go on the auction floor. Then I would every day, myself do the verbal auctioneering of all the various carcasses. Keeping record of the sales sheets, price and buyers before sending it off for invoicing.