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Description:
Permanent full time position available on our Dairy farm to milk 95 cows twice daily and farm chores. Knowledge/ability to drive tractors, skidsteers, large trucks and machinery for daily chores and silaging/haying/seeding and harvesting.
Skills and Abilities:
Livestock Holstein cattle
Essential Skills:
- continuous learning
- good oral communication
- working with a team
- problem solving
- critical decision making
- job task planning and organizing
- ability to work unsupervised
Specific Skills:
- knowledge and computer skills
- operate and maintain farm machinery and
equipment
Additional Skills:
- formulate feed ration and feeding cows/calves
- maintaining livestock performance records
- detecting heats
- cow/calf care checking/treating illnesses
- fencing repairs and maintenance
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- attention to detail
- physically demanding
- handling heavy loads
- repetitive tasks
Credentials:
- valid class 5 drivers lisc.
- AI certificate and/or enroll in AI program
Applicants must be able to work weekends, housing available to the successful applicant if needed. The farm is located 15 minutes from White City.