Range of tractor and telehandler work to include:

- Feeding cows TMR ration through Keenan mixer wagon

- Bedding stock with bale spreader

- Mucking out

- ATVs used daily to move and check stock

Harvest roles:

Combine driving

Corn carting

Testing/weighing/tipping

I also prepared grain sheds and carried out maintenance on vehicles, trailers and conveyors.

Post-harvest I was involved in cultivations - spring tine harrowing, power harrowing and rolling.

Other tractor experience includes topping, yard scraping, and raking as well as loader tasks with bucket, muck grab etc.

I have telehandler/forklift experience, and have held a Group 3 (Telehandler) forklift licence since January 2012.

Managed a range of dairy herd, sheep flock and beef unit sizes, as well as breeding red deer herd.

My dairy experience includes milking, feeding and checking stock, assisting carvings, calf rearing (including disbudding), AI & heat detection, mastitis & other health conditions identification and treatment, vaccinating, blood sampling and foot trimming. I also have experience of UNIFORM, DairyComp305 & InterHerd data recording programs.

My pig experience involves farrowing sheds, dry sows, growers / finishers, artificial insemination, and preparing farrowing paddocks and moving stock, as well as electric fencing, ear tagging, tail docking & teeth clipping.

During 14 contract lambing periods, I have become competent in undertaking the following tasks: - assisting malpresented births - fostering orphaned lambs - stomach tubing - management of prolapses - ringing tail docking and castrating lambs - worming ewes - entropion treatment.