| CV reference number: 49025 | |
| CV Headline | South African Stockman (29) looking for employment on livestock or mixed farms in the UK. |
| Qualifications and Experience | |
| Relevant qualifications | Not listed |
| Other qualifications | Bachelors of Agriculture (BAgric), Stellenbosch University. |
| Equipment experience | Tractor, Baler, Telehandler/fork lift, Other harvesters, Fencing |
| Other equipment experience | Tractors up to 200 HP. Manitou Telehandler work, feeding silage, hay, clearing rubble. Various tractor work including scraping, loading, topping and trailed implements. Assisted with bailing and hay making, driven lorry's and forklift work, tractors and trailed implements. Worked on dairy farm, using scraper tractor on daily basis, scraping out sheds. Drove valtra tractor in from fields with trailer when bringing in silage bales. Maintenance work on machinery.Tractor and trailer work, offloading of fruit cases, spraying work, tip trailer.Boom sprayer work. |
| Livestock experience | Dairy, Beef, Pig, Sheep, Lambing, Calving, Poultry |
| Other livestock experience | Herdsman- Dairy Farm- 200 cows- Calf rearing, Milking, bedding, feeding. Stockman- Beef farm 120 cows during calving season.General farm worker- Working with 600 laying hens, 400 texel cross sheep, dosing, Lamber/Shepherd- Lambing 350 Lleyn gimmers and working with 700 Lleyn ewes, tractor work, veterinary work, quad bike, working dogs. Herd Manager- South African farm with 50 Pedigree Sussex cows, breeding/selection, veld management, grazing techniques, tick control, herd health. |
| Type of farming wanted | Mainly Livestock |
| Driving License | Full Car Licence |
| Personal information | |
| Sex | Male |
| Age | 28 |
| Nationality | South African |
| First language | English |
| Other languages | Afrikaans |
| Pen picture | 6 ft 14 stone. |
| Relevant health problems | No |
| Other Information | Best student plant and animal production Stellenbosch university 2016. Golden key international honorary society 2016. Simental and holstein stock judging cources. |
| Marital status | No |
| Where are you currently living? | Hertfordshire |
| Do you have the right to work in the UK? | Yes |
| Farming background | 2010-2014- Manager- In charge of Irrigation and quality control of Citrus Orchards as well as harvest( tractor, Lorry and forklift work) on farm in South Africa and managed small herd of 50 Sussex beef cows. 2017 Stockman- worked on farms in Scotland during calving and lambing to gain UK experience, working with beef pedigree Luing and 120 Simmental cross cows as well as Lleyn, blackie and texel sheep. Worked with variety of beef cows and sheep breeds, working dogs, lambing, calving and doing grazing practices, quad bikes and snacker, tractors, fencing. 2017-2018. Worked on Dairy farm in Shropshire England milking 200 cows and raising calves, bedding and mucking out, tractor work, telehandler, quad bikes, strip grazing and electric fence work, parlor hygiene and , health, mastitis, milk fever, foot bath, and other animal health related activities, calving. 2018- Farm guest house manager- 2019- Farm foreman, citrus farm, south africa. duuties included supervising and managment of team of 20 staff embers in ensuring timely harvest of different varieties of citrus fruit, application of fertilizers, planting as well as pruning of decidious fruit Responcible for irrigation systems, their instalation as well as managment and maintanace of pumps, orchard blocks, repair and maintance of pipes and bore holes. Invloved in spraying of pesticides, their calibration and implementation. Enured quality control of fruit tea. supervised planting of rooibos tea in the growing season. |
| Hobbies | Young farmers, rugby- watch and play. Boxing and playing drums and guitar. |
| Preferences | |
| Availability | Start: 13/12/2019, Finish: Not Specified |
| Type of job | Any |
| Preferred region | Anywhere |
| Where would you like to work? | UK |