5 yrs driving 150 HP Claas and Fendt tractors for irrigating, potato trailering, potato topping, disking and drilling autumn raddish cover crop. Driving of counterbalance forklift in Grading Shed and Merlo telehandler.

In my youth helped on dairy farms trailering silage, rolling grass, slurry spreading and grain carting.

When working on pig units mainly telehandler work, straw stacking infield and trailering back to pig units

Assisted on dairy farms from the ages of 12 -16. Helped out with all tasks associated with dairy husbandry,calf rearing as well as silaging, grassland tasks and grain harvesting. Post school worked on 300 head beef, 200 ewe,80 hectare arable farm for 6 months where I assisted the Head stockman in the day to day tasks.No real lambing experience gained here, just ewes lambing out of sequence with the main flock. 18 months on a small 125 sow, 56 hectare family farm, again assisted the Head pigman in all daily husbandry tasks as well as harvest work and cultivation work. 15 months Head of Farrowing on a 500 sow 'Cotswold' gilt multiplication unit, carried out all daily husbandry tasks personally as well as helping out in other areas of the unit and harvest work. After completing college I returned to this unit as Manager for 16 moths overseeing 3 members of staff as well as looking after the Farrowing Houses as before. 3 years Farrowing House Technician/ Assistent manager on a 250 sow high health status unit selling progeny at pork/cutter weight. Managed daily the Farrowing Houses as well as helping out in all other areas of the unit and day to day management in the managers absence, every other weekend and every other weekly night checks