My experience starts at the age of 12 buying and selling livestock. At age 17, from my livestock business, I was able to purchase 36 hectares of land and I grew from there to filling positions such as Livestock Marketer for South Africa’s largest livestock auction house, BKB, and to owning sheep and cattle farms and breeding as a business, and setting new breeding records with my cattle and sheep.I have developed specialist knowledge and experience in the field of Genetic Improvement, and Livestock (cattle and sheep) Selection and Classification, Breeding Programmes and Auctioning and Marketing.IN THE MEDIA:➤ “Danie Thomas, a Dormer stud breeder in Kroonstad in the Free State, is first and foremost a businessman... Always striving for the best, he bought his commercial Dormer flock in 2013 and his Kairos Dormer stud in 2014… at the Kairos production sale in 2016 Danie’s Dormer ewes achieved the highest ever South African price… He ascribes his success to stringent selection for fertility, structural soundness and adherence to breed standards… his operation is run according to strict business principles."-Extract from Farmer’s Weekly, Article: “Dormers: for the greatestreturn on your investment”, Sept 2016➤ “Danie’s primary objective is to optimise mutton production per Ha… he selectsthe best in the flock for breeding to safeguard genetic integrity.”– Farmer’s Weekly➤ “I have faith in the value of good breeding material and technology.”– Danie Thomas, in Landbou Weekblad