NCA, NVQ Level 1,2, City and Guilds
Mainly Livestock
NCPT Foundation Certificate in Agriculture 1992-1994 NVQ Level 1 +2 Agriculture 1993-1995 NCA And NVQ Level 2 1995-1996 City and Guilds Level 2 in Agricultural Tractor Driving and Operations 2016
Tractor Licence, Provisional
Tractor, Baler, Ploughing, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Other harvesters, Fencing
Dairy
Tractors up to 160hp and forage harvesters (claas jaguar) trailers up to 18 tonne welgar round baler reco tedders and i can reverse a tractor and trailer and use round balers and trailed forage harvesters. The farms i worked on were between 150- 400 acres and i can pick grass and load in to trailers hitched to the forager and used a hydraulic post knocker as well as conventional small baling
Herdsman for 20 years at CVT Botton Village, relief milker/tractor driver for 9 years with A and J Gill and Sons Church House Farm Danby At Church House Farm Danby i was co-responsible for milking 350 Pedigree Holstein Friesians in a 10x20 herringbone parlour and they were cubicle housed and TMR Fed and also with a pedigree herd of 285 Jersey's
Male
when I was studying at CCTA Gelli Aur i was nominated dairy student of the year 3 years on trot
46
single
United Kingdom
North Yorkshire
English
Yes
Welsh, French,German
rugby, cycling, football, cinema etc
6'1 118kg(17st9lb)
none
Church house farm till 2011 and took control of his father's farm near Pickering and sold the farm to A who had a pedigree Jersey herd and helped him, Then in 2014 he stopped milking completely because of the low milk price 1996-present working on a farm at Botton Village which now has a large herd of Dairy Shorthorn cows
Start: 12/07/2018 Finish: Not Specified
East Midlands
Permanent
North Yorkshire