Male available for Mainly Livestock work

CV Ref No. CV Reference No. - 24594

Currently self employed
Working on dairy farms during the winter
Agri contracting on machinery in the summer
Plus a small shearing round of my own

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Qualifications and Experience

Relevant qualifications

Not listed

Type of farming wanted

Mainly Livestock

Other qualifications

GCSE. 1 year at Agriculture College. Rough Terrain Forklift ticket. Chainsaw tickets. Woodchipper ticket. PA1, and PA2, PA4. H license for crawler. Have done lambing courses, health and safety at work + first aid

Driving Licence

Full Car Licence

Equipment experience

Tractor, Combine, Ploughing, Drilling, PA1, PA2, Tracked Machine, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing

Livestock experience

Dairy, Beef, Pig, Sheep, Lambing

Other equipment experience

Have operated tractors various makes and sizes doing triple grass mowers, raking, tedding, cultivation, silage carting, ploughing, hedge cutting, drilling, combining, spraying, fertiliser (liquid/granular). Along with telehandler, skid steers, loading shovels and 360 excavators

Other livestock experience

•Dairy

Milking (limited experience)

Young stock feeding/bedding

Assisting with tb testing

Moving stock

Routine stock work

•Sheep

Lambing, feeding, drenching, crutching and foot trimming. Grading fat Lambs for slaughter. Transportation of Sheep. Had my own flock of nearly 100 ewes mainly Llyens had a low input extensive grazing system mob grazing paddocks using electric fencing.

•Pigs

Had a couple of breeding sows myself that I ran organically feeding mainly bulk agricultural waste products. I had Oxford sandy and blacks and was very keen on keeping rare breed pigs

• Beef

Have worked on several farms with beef cattle systems mostly intensive fattening but also some suckler herds out to pasture the majority of the year

Personal information

Sex

Male

Other Information

Im looking for longevity in my career now I have a young family, Ive tried many different avenues in agriculture and my heart is very much set on beef and sheep in wales

Age

Marital status

Married for nearly 10 years my wife has a remote based job working from home

Nationality

British

Where are you currently living?

Carmarthenshire

First language

English

Do you have the right to work in the UK?

Yes

Other languages

Hobbies

Have a 1 year old son so family time is very important to me also have several working dogs

Pen picture (Height, weight etc.)

Height: 6ft4" 100kgs

Relevant health problems

N/A

Farming background

2012/2013 Summer placements of mainly arable work. 2013/2014 on a farm helping with lambing and arable work. 2015 Worked for contractors and undertook arable farm work. 2015/2017 Sole worker on 600 acres of Arable & a head of 60 pedigree high health status Simmental cattle. Other arable duties.

2017/2019 Worked for large arable farm undertaking all main tasks combining/spraying/planting alongside a civils engineering partner company undertaking various work for local councils, supermarkets and highways.

2019/2023

Sole employee on 1200 acre arable farm undertaking all main tasks including but not limited to spraying, cultivations, planting. Winter work included tree cutting, drain jetting and workshop projects.

2023-2025

Self employed doing gfw on dairy farms and agri contracting as well as sheep shearing

Preferences

Availability

Start: 01/03/2026 Finish: Not Specified

Preferred region

Wales

Type of job

Any

Where would you like to work?

south/mid Wales

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