I have a passion for agriculture, I am currently working on a mixed but mainly beef farm and have been here since February 2021. I would like to progress into a career as a shepherd and expand my knowledge with sheep.
BTEC
Mixed Farming
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Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence
Tractor, Baler, Ploughing, Tracked Machine, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing
Beef, Sheep, Lambing, Calving
My tractor experience has been mainly with grass management and hauling trailers. I have spent the last four harvests mowing, spinning and rowing grass for hay and silage. I have done a small amount of ploughing but would like to do more and gain experience with that also this year I was given the job of baling all of our straw and contract baling for other farmers straw. I can drive tracked machines such as diggers and tracked post knockers, I spent a year working as a fencing contractor, doing various agricultural fencing i have also spent time driving diggers up to 12tone, ditching and ground work for horse areas putting in drains.
Whilst I was at college I helped on a sheep dairy farm, there I milked and lambed whist helping with the day to day running of the farm such as feeding with a feeder wagon. Then I worked with a small herd of 60 Dexter cattle, working with them I have assisted with TB testing, feeding and bedding up. Most recently I have been a beef herdsman looking after a heard of 200, here I have been feeding, bedding down and mucking out.
Male
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24
I am not married but me and my girlfriend do live together and would look to move together.
United Kingdom
Northamptonshire
English
Yes
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Outside of work I like to play cricket and also work/ train my two gun dogs one being a spaniel and the other being a lab. Recently I have taken on a collie puppy that is 7 months old that I have been training to work along side me to help myself with working cattle and sheep.
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Most recently I have been a general farm worker on a beef farm looking after 200 head of Belgium blue cross steers and heifers. Here I have also done grassland management and a small amount of arable, also here the last 2 years we have wintered 300store lambs that have been mainly my responsibility. Previous to this I have been working as a Tree Surgeon and Fencing Contractor. The company I had been working for has a 250 acre beef and arable farm where I have been helping with tasks. I have been mainly assisting within harvest season with the mowing, spinning and rowing up of hay and silage as well as hauling bales.
Start: 01/11/2023 Finish: Not Specified
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Permanent
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