General Farm Hand

Help with Outdoor pigs and sheep on farm near Timaru, South Canterbury

Have experience with livestock farming and preferably can drive a tractor:

Specific Requirements:

•  Clean driving license and visa to work in NZ

Farm Info:

Hiya! We are a mix of kiwi and Filipino milking 530 cows in a 46 aside herringbone on a lovely farm for very cool owners. We are clean and tidy and love to farm, cows and have a joke.

Cover when our team are on their much deserved days off. Could be an AM shift from 5-9am or a PM from 2.30-5pm. We are super flexible to work in with YOU!!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Milk cows
• Help wash up 

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Milking experience

Specific Requirements:

•  Ideal if you have already milked in a herringbone before

We are looking for some people with valid gun licenses to help us repel/scare birds out of our crop. Hours are flexible but you can count on at least 20 hours a week, and after uni starts whenever you have time, just come down and give us a hand. Job ends around the beginning of March. We operate on 50ha, running yield trials, and do increases for others. Our harvest start mid January, so we will be busy to keep on top of it. The first 2 paddocks are under attack at the moment, but soon they start hammering the rest of the fields. If you are someone who takes everything personally, then you'll be truly motivated to do well here.

There are gas guns to move around, balloons, kites to put up, and just patrol the paddocks. If you see fresh bird damage, tell us where, we have sprays we can use to keep them off for a while.

We are near Leeston, just 10min from Lincoln.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  shifting bird scarers and gas guns
• shooting
• helping around the farm if you want to have more hours

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Specific Requirements:

•  gun license

Our 200 ha predominantly flat farm on the banks of the Rangitikei river finishes around 3500 to 4000 lambs along with 200-225 cattle each year. In addition we grow nearly 100ha of crop mainly maize, sweetcorn, and process peas. We have irrigation infrastructure capable of watering 125ha.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Depending on the applicants skills and experience we would like help with daily shifting of travelling irrigators, tractor work, sheep and cattle husbandry, along with weed control work, fence and water supply maintenance

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Skills and/or experience in the above work areas would be great but not necessary

Specific Requirements:

•  Preferably applicants would have their own transport to get to and from the farm

We are open to any ideas that would reduce our personal workload whether it is one day per work help, a few half days each week right up to a full 40 hours per week. We are not fixed on requiring a specific set of skills but rather someone who is careful , sensible, with a positive attitude willing to learn new things. Having said that it would be great to find someone who is interested in crop husbandry and machinery operation.

We would be open to someone who just wants work over the summer period as well.

The Team at Fortuna are looking for a Lincoln Student either for a start into the amazing dairy industry, or to grow their networks and on farm skill set. This position has the potential to connect you with all things dairy in Southland, leading into the ability to exponentially grow your farming future.

Farming is not for the faint hearted, it takes guts & determination to succeed, and we can help you show you how we did it.

Take the time to look at our website, I've included a snippet below:

"Our people are the lifeblood of Fortuna. They keep the animals happy and are skilled custodians of the land. They make sure milk production is high, innovation is constant and we move forward with a culture of hard-work and appreciation for each other's efforts. Because it’s a team effort. We do the right thing and have a great time doing it too.

We are a Dairy Farming Business with 22 Dairy Farms across Southland. We have a mixture of managed farms and contract milked farms. People are at the heart of our success and we are always on the hunt for good people."

If this job post is of interest to you, then please contact us. Any level of skill set and experience will be considered, we are simply looking for someone with a great attitude towards people, cows and grass. We know that this combined with a strong work ethic, common sense and a sense of humor will lead to job satisfaction & success.

https://fortunagroup.net.nz/

About: We are looking for a full-time general farm hand to assist with developing a newly purchased dry stock block adjacent to our 400-cow dairy platform using Halter animal management technology. We provide modern and well-maintained equipment within a well organised family run business, taking pride in our farm and looking after our team. We pride ourselves on providing a safe workplace for both human and animal wellbeing and welfare. This is a drive in position.

Duties and Responsibilities: Reporting directly to the on-farm owner, duties will include fencing for new paddock development, tractor driving, shifting and maintaining K Lines and pivot irrigation, some animal handling including stock movement, drenching/drafting when required, break feeding and feeding out. Other jobs will include spraying and general farm maintenance as and when required. This role does not require any milking.

Desirable Skills and Experience: Experienced tractor driving a must, confidence on hills (rolling terrain), animal handling, confidence with quad bikes, great attitude and strong work ethic a non-negotiable 

Specific Requirements: As this is a drive in position a clean driver's license is a requirement.

About:

Southern Seed Technology Ltd is an Agribusiness servicing the needs of National and International plant breeders, seed producers and seed marketers. We are based in Leeston, Canterbury and work with barley, wheat, oat and linseed.

We are looking for a person who is machinery minded, doesn’t mind variety in their work and has a strong work ethic with attention to detail. If you have experience with arable crops and tractor/harvester operating that is an advantage. Our harvest season starts up this coming month and we are missing a combine driver. We would provide training, so even if you don't have all the licenses listed below, but you are capable, we will talk to you. From mid January till end of March/beginning of April we expect to be very busy 50+ hours a week. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Operating tractors and harvesters

Dressing seed, using a variety of machines

Sickling/rouging

General farm duties, like hand hoeing, maintenance, knapsack spraying, mowing, etc

Desirable Skills and Experience

•  Forklift license
• Class 2 license
• Previous tractor driving experience

Specific Requirements:

We're seeking a dairy assistant to join our team on a 850 cow farm 5mins outside of Rakaia Town. At least 2yrs experience on a NZ Dairy Farm. Only those with Valid NZ residency or visa to apply. Must have a positive attitude to dairy farming, good sense of humour and be able to work in a team. 46 a side herringbone with excellent cow flow.

Duties will include: Milking Mastitis detection Stock Work Break Fences Feeding Out Weed Control Farm repairs Irrigation shifting

Tullba is redefining farming: Our mission is to Make every Cow a Champion. We operate an innovative integrated dairy and beef operation near Mayfield in Canterbury. We peak milk 1350 dairy cows and rear the majority of our calves for replacements or beef.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Milking
• Collecting cows
• End milking washdown

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Previous rotary preferred

Specific Requirements:

•  We are looking for someone to cover some leave from mid Dec to end of Jan, could become a full time role for right applicant on ongoing part time basis

About:
Mathiesons Recruitment - Arable Farm 2IC Role

A full time, permanent position has become available on our family owned, 240 ha, cropping farm, situated 20ks (20 mins) South of Ashburton.

The successful applicant will be someone with experience in arable farming and agricultural machinery operation and an interest in and ability to use machinery and vehicle technology.

Heavy Goods licenses are required and you would be required to support the Farm Owner with all aspects of managing the farm including;

• Machine and tractor operations, both on and off road

• Providing a high level of expertise of performance in cultivation work, ground preparation, planting, crop protection and harvesting.

• Workshop and field maintenance

• Weed control • General farm maintenance - of buildings, structures, vehicles, fences and gates

• Health & Safety compliance

*** No stock work required ***

Engineering and mechanical skills are highly desirable.

All tasks and duties must be performed to a very high standard. Initially, this role would be to support the Farm Owner, with the potential to develop into a 2IC role. Therefore, this position would suit a practical person who has a desire to take on responsibility, prove their ability and work cohesively alongside the Farm Owner.

Well cared for accommodation is available with the position. This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong passion and farming knowledge who would appreciate a terrific working environment!

About: 520 cows on 164 ha with 100 ha of support ground for silage and youngstock with lots of variety. Modern facilities with 40 herringbone parlour with cup removers, 535 cubicles and a brand new calving shed. High genetic merit crossbred herd calving 90% + in 6 weeks and calving lasting 10 weeks. Mainly grass based system with new paddock, water and roadways installed in the last 2 years. New unit set up this year with a 24 unit shed with cup removers. 180 cows on 59 ha. All calves are reared in hutches of 7 and moved onto larger mobs then. Sexed semen and some conventional semen is used while the rest of the cows get beef. Beef calves are reared for 3 - 4 weeks before being sold. Calves are moved onto OAD after 4 weeks. Start time is typically 7.30am/8 and finish by 5pm.

We encourage playing sport and/or hobbies and will be flexible with time off and milkings in order to suit time off farm. There are local rugby, tennis, golf, soccer and gaelic clubs in the vicinity with a small local town only 5 mins away and a larger town 10 mins away. The farm is based in the middle of Ireland and within short driving distance of Dublin (2hrs), Cork (2hrs), Limerick (1hr) and Galway (1hr30) so it’s a great opportunity to see plenty of Ireland and what it has to offer. 

Learning opportunities are encouraged with paid courses, discussion groups, travel and conferences. The team is a mixture of youth and experience which will provide plenty of opportunities to learn new skills. Whoever applies needs to have a willingness to learn, to have fun, take pride in their work and be willing to contribute to our team culture.

This role may suit someone who wants to work and travel or a couple who are looking for a change of scenery. We are more than happy to help with visa's such are working holiday or other.

We really value good people in our family run farm and welcome any queries or questions that you have about the role, the area or the farm itself

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Daily feeding of calves
• Monitoring performance and illness of calves
• Debudding and vaccinating
• Calving and caring for new born calves
• Tagging and DNA calves
• Dosing
• Weaning and weighing youngstock
• Recording Keeping
• Milking (Ocassionally)

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Some experience of calf rearing
• Good attitude and willing to learn
• Stockmanship skills
• Grassland Management
• Milking experience

Specific Requirements:

•  Drivers License

At Waka Tropics we value people before production, one of our staff members has moved on for medical reasons. This has opened up an awesome opportunity for an experienced farm assistant to fill a place within our small team.

We are looking for someone who is fit, hardworking, honest and had a driver’s licence and most importantly, reliable. He enjoyed our roster of 5 on 2 off roster from the end of mating, this allowed him to make the most of our fantastic location – 5 minutes from Colac bay and 15 minutes from Riverton. Great for diving, fishing and hunting. We have a school bus that runs by the house for primary and secondary school too.

Are you interested in filling these gumboots?

Nanak Dairies

Duties and Responsibilities: We are looking for a enthusiastic farm assistant for our dairy farm located at Bankside (10 minutes north of Rakaia) from December until Mid January to cover our staff on annual leave. Duties will include milking, getting cows in, spraying and general day to day farm work. We milk 1150 cows through a 50 bale rotary with ACR. Cows are split into 3 herds and 1 person milks 1 herd morning and afternoon.

Desirable Skills and Experience: Some dairy farm work experience essential.

Specific Requirements:

we run a 400 cow self contained farm with sheep beef and cropping also accompanying the business a big user of technology with halter , auto drafting and acrs in the 30 ashb makes it a one person operation to milk

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Milking
• Irrigation
• Weedcontrol
• tractor driving
• stock work

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  dealt with stock before
• able to milk or willing to learn

Specific Requirements:

•  must have drivers license

work available until mid January

We are looking for a dairy assistant to cover two neighbouring farms in the Edendale area. This could be the first step in a long and prosperous career in farming and a future as a farm owner.

We take the job of being good famers very seriously. Sure, the outcome is producing plenty of quality milk solids but we need to make sure the cows are well looked after. That means growing some good grass for them to feed on, milking and taking care of their general welfare. They're valuable team members and we look after them. Speaking of team members, you’ll be working with a few of the two legged kind too. So you’ll need to be a team player and get along with folk.

Then there’s the environment. We do things right here. So each farm has a plan and that’s the starting point. From there we make more improvements and focus on sustainable farming practices so we can be good custodians of the land.

We’ve some machinery and general farm maintenance that you’ll need to look after. Increasingly, technology is playing a part in farming and you’ll be exposed to that too.

We’ve got a track record of supporting personal growth and development. And we have a goal of seeing our team members progress through to farm ownership. So it goes without saying that we offer some great training opportunities, both on and off the farm.

You’ll be the type that likes to roll your sleeves up, get stuck in, challenge yourself and think differently. The type that’s smart, inquisitive and engaged. You’ll be an active person, energetic and approach work with a sense of fun and a real ‘can-do’ attitude. We also need you to be currently residing in NZ and be legally able to work in NZ.

• We are looking for a relief milker for 4 weeks while one of our team is overseas. We milk 1050 cows through a 50 bale rotary. It would be both morning and afternoon milkings of one herd. We are located 5 mins from Dunsandel. Previous milking experience essential.

About:
Come to Ireland and travel Europe, with a 1 yr working holiday visa. Limerick family run dairy farm, 420 cows. Eircode/postcode V94HX27 . The farm is twenty minutes drive from Limerick city, and 5 minutes from Murroe village. There are a variety of gaa, soccer, rugby clubs in the area and many other sporting and social organisations. Limerick University Sports complex is 15 min away, which includes an Olympic size swimming pool. This area of Ireland is home to a lot of nature tourist attractions including Glenstal Abbey and Thomand park rugby stadium. Very good bus connections to Limerick. Shannon airport is 40 minutes away, with fantastic value flights to Europe. Top ebi (250)Xbred herd. All cows are wintered indoors in cubicle barns, milking through 24 herringbone. Seasonal calving like NZ model. Milking platform 160hec with all replacements reared on 40 and 20 hec runoffs. Most machinery work carried out my contractors. Ideal position for a couple.

Duties and Responsibilities:Responsibilities will cover milking (oad/tad), daily husbandry, some machinery operation, feed/grass allocation.

Desirable Skills and Experience: Experience and knowledge of all aspects of grassland/feed budgeting, dairy husbandry and breeding. Attention to detail and ability to work on one’s own initiative essential and as part of a team. 

Specific Requirements:

•  Seeking enthusiastic, ambitious people, experience helpful

We are a 400 cow farm milking through a 34ash with automatic cup removers. Looking for a relief milker to cover staff days off during weekdays.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Starting the plant
• Milking
• Washing shed after milking

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Being able to assist in milking
• Milking experience preferable

Specific Requirements:

• It’s a drive in position.
• No accomodation available.
• Work available 2 to 4 days during weekdays.

About:Hill farm sit/partime work Jan/Feb and possibly longer

Duties and Responsibilities:Farm house sit plus help with feeding 45 cows and 600 sheep. Also ponies,hens,dog and cats

Desirable Skills and Experience:Must be competent on a tractor and have usual country skills

Specific Requirements: