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 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:

We require a person to join our team at an assistant herd manager level. Working alongside our assistant farm manager and the farm owner, you will be involved in all aspects of the daily farm operation.

We employ modern farm practices with technology to operate efficiently and productively.

We milk 435 cows through a 36 bale rotary with ACR's, protrack, meal feeding and Cow Manager tags.

Experience in all aspects of a dairy operation is preferred however we are prepared to teach you what you need to know as long as you are willing and able to learn. A positive, can do attitude with a good sense of humour is required along with the ability to adapt to our system. You need to be a team player but also able to work independently, with the ability to run the farm on your own from time to time.

We are very proud of our farm, our cows and our operation and have a strong passion for the industry based on a focus on attention to detail. We help instil these same passions and principles in our employee's and have pride in helping them grow, advance and succeed both personally and professionally. It is envisaged that with on farm training and development the successful person will quickly move into a herd managers role.

We are very family orientated and have designed out system and invested in technology to create the a great work/life balance for ourselves and our employees.

If this sounds like you we would love to hear from you.

You must currently be a New Zealand resident to apply, we are not an accredited employer.

Grass to Glass Limited is a 50/50 sharemilking business that operates a 200ha, 640 cows peak, irrigated milking platform in Dunsandel Canterbury. Built on family values and driven by growth, we are committed to sustainability and excellence. We strive for harmony between work and life, caring for our land and community to ensure a prosperous future.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Milking and cleaning up

Desirable Skills and Experience:

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.

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:

About: we are looking for a relief milker or part time farm hand to help us, the farm is 450 cows milking in a 38 herringbone shed

Location: Burnham

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Milking,
• Cleaning shed
• Other fencing/tractor work

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Some experience preferred but not essencial

Specific Requirements:

Duties and Responsibilities: day to day run of farming operation working alongside contract milker

Desirable Skills and Experience: pasture management 3 seasons experience minimum in New Zealand some irrigation and effluent experience but training will be provided eye for details around stock able to do lame cows and treat accordingly

Specific Requirements:

Looking for a Farm Assistant role with a difference? Interested in understanding more about different dairy farm systems and contributing to research for southern farmers? The Southern Dairy Hub has the role for you 😀 We are seeking an enthusiastic, passionate Farm Assistant to join our team. You’ll join a team of five full time employees and seasonal calf rearers.

You’ll need to have some dairy experience, have an eye for detail, be a strong team player, reliable, good communicator with a positive attitude. The farm is located in Branxholme, Invercargill, Southland. You will be helping with the day-to-day running of the farm, alongside the team, and duties will include but not limited to, milking, cleaning the shed, setting up fences, maintenance, tractor work and general farm duties.

Start ASAP Experience is preferred, a good attitude is a non-negotiable and we’d love you to have a good sense of humour. Must have references and NZ drivers license. Competitive package - no accommodation supplied howevert we are only 12km from Invercargill

Only NZ citizens\residence apply please (we are not an accredited employer)

 Looking for someone with preferably 4+years experience but will consider anyone who is proven to be competent in all areas on a dairy farm.

Peak milking 750 cows through a 60 bail rotary with automatic cup removers etc located 10 minutes north of Oamaru

Looking for someone with preferably 4+years experience but will consider anyone who is proven to be competent in all areas on a dairy farm.

Peak milking 750 cows through a 60 bail rotary with automatic cup removers etc located 10 minutes north of Oamaru

Located halfway between Lumsden and Dipton.

We are milking 800cows through a twin pit herring bone shed. We are looking for another person to join our team. NOTE: This is a drive in position only.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  All day to day dairy farm duties

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Milking experience

Specific Requirements:

•  Drive in position only