Stockman and General Farm Worker: Howard & Sons 2024 present

•Working as part of a small team on a commercial beef farm finishing approximately 200 Store cattle for several different markets, as well as managing 50 pedigree Charolais suckler cows in a dual block calving system.

•Confident carrying out a full range of daily tasks, including feeding using a mixer wagon and bedding up, alongside a range of other key jobs including trimming, worming, tagging and weight recording using Tru Test equipment to track and monitor progress.

•Good understanding of cow and calf health and welfare, including watching for key cow signals.

•Competent at handling cattle, running them through a race and drafting into relevant groups, such as when identifying and selecting fat cattle to meet a range of specifications for a variety of markets.

•Experienced at calving Charolais cows, working to manage their strong maternal instinct whilst ensuring both cow and calf are health, whilst reducing stress where possible.

•Experienced at using a wide range of tractors and equipment to carry out hedge trimming, muck spreading, hay making and haulage, plus fencing and using a chainsaw.

•Helped to implement a new drainage system using a Mastenbroek Drainage trencher and trailed stone cart with moving bed.

Stockman: Farm, Monmouthshire 2015 - July 2024

•Managing approximately 270 Texel breeding ewes year-round with a comprehensive approach to lambing and post-parturient care of ewe and lamb, body condition scoring.

•Implemented procedures to minimise the spread of disease and keeping a mortality rate below 5%.

•Responsible for a mix 120 continental steers throughout winter, feeding, bedding up and selecting fat cattle ready for slaughter.

•Confident handling and managing temperamental cattle in stressful situations, with a good understanding of risk management in potentially dangerous environments.

Stockman: Farming Company, Pongoroa, New Zealand November 2022- February 2023

•Worked across two 1200 ewe sites, responsible for key shepherding tasks including jabbing and drenching lambs, drafting ewes and crutching.

•Developed by understanding of a paddock grazing system, particularly paddock maintenance and daily stock rotation. Learnt about the use of chicory and clover to improve the nutritional quality of the sward and therefore to increase growth rates.

•Gained experience with finishing 200 dairy bulls, completing day to day tasks associated with the outdoor system and developed the skill of selected based on fat.

•Working in a shearing gang particularly as a wool handler and a wool press/sheepo focused on sorting wool quickly and efficiently, getting sheep penned and ready for shearing, as well as maintaining full pens, keeping the wool press operating.

Farm Worker, Oxfordshire April 2021- September 2021

•Responsible for a 4000-pig finishing unit, sorting and selecting finished pigs for slaughter.

•Managed a wet feeding system, including liaising with feed companies to arrange deliveries to ensure consistent supply, and maintenance of the pipework and valves which deliver the feed.

•Developed and maintained a network of local farmers for mutually beneficial muck for straw contracts.

•Working in a harvest team to collect and transport 35,000 bales within the local area back to the home farm using a John Deere 6155R and 44ft artic trailer.

Stockman: Fawley Farms, Devon July 2020- January 2021

•Herdsperson working full time for 1500 commercial sows working on the farrowing fields.

•Trained in artificial insemination of breeding sows particularly pedigree Landrace maiden gilts, plus administering hormone treatments to gilts for cycle synchronisation.

•Efficient at constructing field pens and participating large field move operations.

•Fully trained in weaning, injecting, and sorting piglets.

•Effectively able to handle aggressive sows with the aim of minimising sow stress.

•Working in a team and directing less experienced new staff members, providing training