We are a 400 cow farm milking through a 34ash. Located in Morven, 5 minutes from Glenavy, 25 minutes from Oamaru and 45 minutes from Timaru.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Milking
• Break fencing
• Moving cows
• Plant wash, shed cleaning
• Helping sharemilkers with other routine/seasonal farm jobs

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Driving 2 wheeler, quad bike
• Tractor driving skill preferred
• Some farming experience is preferable.

Specific Requirements:

• Seasonal and casual work available for partner

Landscaping

Duties and Responsibilities:

Planting natives and installing combi guards

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Need to be physically fit

Specific Requirements:

We can supply transport from Ashburton

Coaltrack Farm is 137 Hectare Dairy Farm located 10 minutes from Rolleston with pivot irrigation. We have 400 Cows milking through a 30 aside herringbone cowshed. All calves are reared on farm. We are currently going through a development stage of refencing the farm due to the new pivots and water system, so are in need of people to assist with mainly milkings and daily farm tasks.

Duties and Responsibilities: Mainly milkings and setting up breaks, with a few other farm duties as required.

Desirable Skills and Experience: Experience would be good but we are willing to teach someone who is keen to learn and has a positive attitude.

Specific Requirements: We are looking for someone with a positive attitude that likes cows and is interested in dairy farming. This is a drive in position at the moment but there is a chance of accommodation to be negotiated. Also hours and pay to be negotiated.

• Small supportive team
• Robust and innovative dairy farm
• Excellent opportunity if you want a career in the dairy industry

We require a farm assistant to help with all aspects of our farming operation. Work with a top herd within a small supportive team. Our farm is mostly flat and set up for easy farming. We don’t make things hard. What we do need is someone with initiative, a positive attitude and strong work ethic. You will be able to work autonomously, take direction but also make decisions as required as part of the day to day running of the farm. As part of a small team we expect you to muck in on all farm jobs, big and small.

Duties include:

• Milking 450 cows
•  Animal health
• Assisting with Irrigation
• Tractor work – feeding out

We are located at Riverview Farm, 150 ha of flat land backing onto the Manawatu River. Riverview farm is 15 mins from Dannevirke and 45 mins from Palmerston North. The main farm is supported by two separate 70ha and 20ha blocks half an hour drive away.

Our infrastructure includes a 35 a side herringbone shed with automatic cup removers, in-shed feeding, automatic yard cleaning and pro-track drafting system.

We offer a small tidy sleepout suitable for a single person or couple. 

In applying for this role we expect you will have:

•  A current CV
• Two current referees
• A clean drivers licence
• Relevant farming experience
• A can-do attitude

To be considered for this position we do require two current references who are happy to be contacted. We are not an accredited employer therefore we are unable to consider applicants holding a skilled work visa.

About:

• We are looking for a relief milker to work alongside our staff member, this position has the opportunity for work for the remainder of the season. We milk 420 cows through a 28 aside herringbone. Milking times are 3-3:30hrs in AM & 2:30hrs in PM. Very quiet cows and an easy shed to work in.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Duties will include, Milking, hosing down/washing up, learning the vat and plant wash.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• prior experience would be preferred.

Specific Requirements:

• must be able to provide own transport,

About: Dairy Assistant , we are looking for someone to join our enthusiastic, hard working and motivated team

Duties and Responsibilities: Main duties will be Milking, setting break fences, getting in cows and farm maintenance

Desirable Skills and Experience:

It would be preferable that you have some farm experience but we are norw

than happy to provide on the job training

Specific Requirements:

•  Car and valid drivers license
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About: We run Fernside fresh Milk - selling Raw milk from our 20-30 pedigree Jerseys.

Duties and Responsibilities: Milking , shop set up, feeding calves, moving K- line irrigation, tractor work.

Desirable Skills and Experience: Pervious milking experience required

Specific Requirements:

The Camden Group has an opportunity for someone to join our highly motivated team as a Fixed Term Farm Assistant at our young stock farm, Aylesbury Grazing in Burnham.

We are a 380ha dairy support block with 1200R1's, 1500R2's, 120 R1 and R2 Jersey bulls and 150 carryovers.

We’re on the search for someone with an excellent attitude, honesty, reliability, punctuality, and has a desire to work as part of a team, someone who cares about animals and the environment.

This is a part time casual position for every second weekend and annual leave cover from time to time.

Does this sound like you?

• You’ve had some experience with animals and a good understanding of animal feeding and health.

• You can use farm equipment, machinery and vehicles competently including two wheel motorbikes

• You like to fit in with a team and work together.

• You’re great at time management and know how to prioritise tasks

• You have excellent problem solving skills

If so then please get in touch with us.

Simon Rabbidge        027 630 8031

We provide youngstock grazing as well as cow wintering for our dairy farms along with a baleage contracting business located under 5min from Winton.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  This role will mainly be general farming duties in our dairy support/baleage contracting business including tractor and stock work. It requires a self-motivated person who is capable of working alone as well as alongside others. It is expected this role will be predominately Monday to Friday, but with the weather-dependent nature of farming, some weekend work may be required.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

 ·        Full driver's licence

·         a can-do attitude

·        An ability to work on your own

·        Experience working with cattle

• ·        Competent tractor operator ( bonus if you have worked ground etc)

Specific Requirements:

•  Tractor skills

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

Looking for a change over summer? Compass Agri Australia manages 6 Dairy Farms in Tasmania, Australia. We are looking for keen individuals who want a change of scenery over summer to come and work and learn on our Dairy Farms. Located in the picturesque Derwent Valley, Tasmania and Compass have a lot to offer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Active roll in milking operations
• Provide care for livestock, including feeding and health monitoring
• Maintain cleanliness and hygiene of dairy 
• Participate in pasture management 
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Contribute to a positive and collaborative team environment

Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience in dairy farming or strong interest in the field
• Passion for animal care and welfare
• Good physical fitness and ability to perform manual tasks
• Basic understanding of farm safety practices
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Reliable and able to work flexible hours, including early mornings and weekends

Specific Requirements:

•  Position ideally suits friends who want to travel and work together for the summer

About: We are looking for a skilled butcher for a new business venture. For more information on our farm, check out our website www.tamarfarm.com or Facebook page www.facebook.com/tamarfarming

Duties and Responsibilities: Cutting up beef carcasses into primal cuts for wholesale and also portion cutting prime beef for sale.

Desirable Skills and Experience: You must have the ability, experience, and skills required to do the above and to make small goods and niche products from our top quality beef.

Specific Requirements:

About: Dynamic person required to join our team farming 1000ha of beef, cropping, lamb finishing and dairy support at Tamar Farm, Mt Somers - Mid Canterbury. More information on the farm can be found on www.tamarfarm.com or on www.facebook.com/tamarfarming

Duties and Responsibilities: Day to day responsibility of stock and pasture. The more experience you have, the more responsibility given.

Desirable Skills and Experience: Previous farming experience essential especially skills in pasture management and stock husbandry.

Specific Requirements: The ability to work in a team is imperative. Good communication, work ethic and sense of fun important.

Southern Pork is a modern 500 sow indoor piggery operation

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Feeding, checking stock, milling feed, artificial insemination, farrowing sows and cleaning

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Reliable, great work ethic and ability to work with others. No previous experience nesscary.

Specific Requirements:

420 cow Dairy farm in Kakaramea. Cows are milked through 44 bail rotary with ACR’s, milk meters and auto drafting.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Milking
• Effluent management
• Weed control
• General shed & farm maintenance

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Minimum 2 years dairy farm experience

Specific Requirements:

Must be able to work as part of a team and at times unsupervised. We aim to provide friendly & stress free environment with flexible time off.

• Tractor Operators required for Potato, Onion, and Carrot Harvesting.
• November 24 - March 25
• Located in Pukekohe, Auckland.
• Tractor experience is required
• Rate from $28/hr
• Accommodation can be provided

From November each year through to end of March we have a requirement for a number of seasonal staff. The skills required for these roles range from machinery operators who are experienced in ground preparation, planting, harvesting and some spraying.

Also required are a number of staff who may have less experience driving the larger machinery and technical farming ability but can carry out more general machinery operating roles and general farm work.

We begin recruiting for these roles in May and encourage applications from Northern Hemisphere people who would like to incorporate working here as part of a working holiday through their winter months.

We have limited backpacker type shared accommodation for which we charge a nominal weekly rental.

If you believe you have the skills required for a role in our production teams then please email jobs@aswilcox.co.nz or call 09-2370740 between 8am-4pm weekdays for further information and a job description. You can expect to work from 40 up to 70 hours per week, depending on the weather.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  You will be joining a vibrant team of Local Kiwi Operators, as well as some Northern Hemisphere International Operators!
• Make lifelong friends as you joins us for the upcoming harvest season.
• We have MULTIPLE Seasonal Operator roles available. We are looking for harvest bin trailer drivers, spray operators, and harvest machinery operators, amongst other roles. Experience with driving tractors is a MUST.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Tractor operating experience
• General Health and Safety awareness
• Prior Farm Experience

 Application Process

For any of our seasonal workers, you must be able to provide proof of your eligibility to work in New Zealand even if you are currently living in New Zealand.

For applicants coming from overseas, you will need to have a working holiday visa approved before you travel to New Zealand – www.immigration.govt.nz for more information and how to apply for your visa.

You will also need to apply for a NZ IRD number – www.ird.govt.nz for information on what is required and a New Zealand bank account number.

All new employees at Wilcox will be required to undergo a pre employment drug screen prior to an offer of employment being confirmed. This will be discussed with you at the time of interview. Our sites are drug and alcohol free and we conduct drug testing in a number of situations including random testing. A copy of our Drug & Alcohol Policy is available for any staff member to access.

Forward your CV to either:

• jan.bott@aswilcox.co.nz
• laura.torpey@aswilcox.co.nz
• Or, message us directly on the Ag Assist platform to express your interest and ask us some questions.