Self-Employed Farm Worker / Contractor

Herefordshire & surrounding counties | 2017 Present

•Provide skilled contracting support for arable, livestock, and mixed farms.

•Machinery operations including potato harvesting, drilling, fertiliser spreading, hedge trimming, silage & hay making.

•Livestock support including lambing, calving, feeding, tagging, and herd health treatments.

•Assisted in diversifying family farm into a teaching farm and developing direct meat sales enterprise.

•Gained wide exposure to different farming systems and adapted quickly to varying demands.

Lecturer Mechanised Agriculture

Holme Lacy College | 2016 2017 (short contract)

•Delivered practical training in tractor driving, mechanised systems, and farm machinery.

•Supported students to develop technical competence and awareness of new agricultural technologies.

Stockman / Tractor Driver Beef Unit

Gloucestershire | 2015 2016

•Daily livestock feeding (TMR) and finishing cattle for on-site abattoir.

•Machinery operations: drilling, baling, muck spreading, and fertiliser application.

•Monitored animal performance and adjusted rations to meet market requirements.

Herd Manager Mixed Farm

South Herefordshire | 2010 2015

•Established and managed pedigree Longhorn herd (65 cattle), plus flock of sheep.

•Developed herd/flock health plans with vets and achieved farm assurance status.

•Grassland reseeding, rotational grazing, and forage management.

•Managed livestock records, movement reporting, and compliance paperwork.

•Produced quality store cattle and finished stock for market and direct supply.