Marphona Farms

Assistant Farm manager: will be  Good with grass and allocation to cows, knows how to calculate feed requirements. Enjoys everything Dairy farming. Knows how to find mastitis, treat lame cows and is tidy and well organized.  Enjoys sharing knowledge, open to listening to your team mates. Maintains eclectic fences  and can repair and erect new fences. Good with tractors, feeding out using a wagon and bale feeders knows how to use a grease gun. Can fix water toughs find leaks put in new water lines. Farm: One of four that all join to each other. 800 Autumn calving cows 50 bail rotary, cow wrangler for lame cows, self mixing teat spray, half peat flats  and half gentle rolling clay hills. Well laned, good machinery and motor bikes. We offer safe working conditions, everyone to have pre employment drug and police checks with random tests as required. We still do half a beast a year plus medical insurance and a phone a allowance. Great location 5km from primary...

We are looking for an OPERATOR who has a wide range of skills. Must be a citizen or permanent resident. You will be a very tidy and well organized person that  enjoys working in a team at times but mostly  by them selves.  The Workshop is very well set up with everything that is needed,  you will enjoy working in a clean tidy work space,  we work on  a place for everything and everything in its place.  You will coordinate the servicing of all tractors ( 12 ) motor bikes (25 ) with the farm managers and service agents. You will know how and  enjoy the grease gun. Able to weld would be great and be mechanically minded enough that  you can solve and carry out repairs.  We try to do as much as possible ourselves but know when to call the contractor.  Ground work for maize, reshaping of paddocks, direct drilling, mulching paddocks and under fences. Spreading fert We try to bale as many  as we can with our own gear ( 5000 bales ) and use contractors for bulk silage.  You wont...

800 cow Autumn calving farm so summer holidays. 50 bail rotary shed with cow manager. New Zealand farm  Experience essential with: Milking, tractor driving, fencing, weed control and water maintenance and getting cows in on 2 and 4 wheel motorbikes. We offer a safe working environment and with 4 dairy farms all linking each other we have internal promotions available. We have great managers on each farm that enjoy training and helping each other. Very nice family home with new kitchen  two fires one with wet back fully fenced great 3 car garage ,  great primary school 4 km from farm. Must be tidy, house proud and be able to provide reference's. A pre employment drug test and a police check. Must be living in New Zealand and have a working visa.