Not listed
Mainly Arable, Mixed Farming, Other
School of hard knocks , short courses in dairy farm management, agronomy, crops and irrigated pasture grasses, data base programs , irrigation scheduling using probes and moisture meters, GPS systems
International
Tractor, Baler, Tracked Machine, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Other harvesters, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Pig, Lambing, Calving
Big pack baling,triple bed forming,single bed forming, power harrow, sumo subsoiler,mowers, tedders, gyro rakes,forage harvester, silage carting , muck and slurry spreading,variable rate spreaders, JD 4730 sprayer, dozers,TLB,grader and excavator. various maize planters and vaderstad rapid planter.
AI, breeding and synchronization programs, Herd health, hoof trimming,vaccinations and general medication administration treatment of sick animals,drenching sick cows, calf and heifer rearing ,milking, hygiene,quarter sampling and udder palpation and mastitis detection and treatment.fodder flows and management of crops associated with managing a dairy farm. data base programs for herd management (AFIKIM) pasture measuring and allocation(FOURTH-QUADRANT)dry cow management and transition periods. fresh cow management.
Male
kEEN TO GET STUCK IN AND DO SOME FARMING
48
My wife Hayley our daughter Tyler 7 and son Cooper 5
South African
KwaZulu Natal
English
Yes
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Woodworking , travel , reading , cuisine ,
183 110 KG
NONE
I have held various management positions over my career and enjoy looking for a challenge. I grew up on a mixed dairy, pig, and house stud farm with a large forestry section growing pine to supply the farm sawmill. I worked on the family farm until 1998 when I left to learn new farming practices in the UK where I worked on farms growing lettuce and herbs , I believe my ability to work with and manage people helped me into positions of responsibility where i was responsible for all lettuce plantings that included land prep and bed forming and tasking. communicating with the agronomist on a weekly basis regarding spraying and irrigation requirements. scheduling irrigation with low pressure boom and reel irrigators .managing a team of 16 people. I have managed dairy farms milking 500 to 2000 cows in milk including all related crops. I took on a position of farm operations manager in Zambia working for a large venture capitalist company where we developed 3500 ha of virgin bush to arable land under center pivot irrigation growing maize, soya and winter wheat. I established the beginnings of a beef enterprise with 2000 breeding cows and the construction of a feedlot that would eventually handle 5000 head at any given time , to supply the companies butcheries. Currently I own and manage a timber harvesting operation supplying local sawmills with around 2000 cubes of structural timber per month.
Start: 31/03/2019 Finish: Not Specified
South West
Permanent
Not fazed as long as the work environment is good