Elite Farm Managers Position With Equity Potential – Manono Farm 970 Cows Cambridge
Manono farm manager’s position is located at 1/2881 Cambridge Road only ten minutes from Cambridge and Te Awamutu. The farm is 310ha effective milking platform and is operated under a high performing pasture-based system.
This position has become available as the current equity manager has progressed to large scale 50-50 sharemilking opportunity.
The successful applicant will be given a lot of autonomy with day to day management and must demonstrate experience and knowledge in the following disciplines:
- Recruit, develop and organise staff in a way that creates a strong team environment
- Technical and practical skill in feed budgeting and allocation.
- Financial budgeting ability and able to perform to budget.
- Stock management – Ability to create and implement SCC, Lameness, Heat detection and all related animal health plans for a large dairy herd.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Computer literacy and sound record keeping practices eg (Minda/Nait)
- The operation and maintenance of machinery
- Capable of implementing the weed, water, fencing, races and general farm maintenance
- Well-developed time management practices.
- Health and Safety practices
- Effluent management and other compliance requirements of modern dairy farming
The successful applicant will be given the opportunity to have on-going training and support from the senior management where required. The JD & RD Wallace also offers elite farm administration support to deal with modern compliance.
This is the first time a management role on this farm has been advertised for in 15 years, with internal candidates from the wider group filling the role.
There is long term progression within the role as the farm has been under a long-term notional lease arrangement with the previous two long standing managers. The farm is owned and operated by the JD and RD Wallace farming group. Business opportunities such as equity investment, contract milking and other large management opportunities are open for discussion as the owners have a long history of such partnerships.
The role comes with an outstanding four-bedroom home with two bathrooms, twin garage, large implement shed and well-kept garden. The farm four other excellent houses for the wider team.
Historically relief labour has also been easy to source due to the farm’s location and the some of the existing team will potentially be keen to stay on in their roles.
The farm has a very successful history consistently benchmarking in the top 10% of profit per hectare for Waikato dairy farms. Operating under a simple pasture based farming system. Strategic once a day is used with the young cows going on OAD before mating and often the whole herd is often OAD from January. The herd has been a settled herd for 30+ years with LIC breeding and four herd tests per season. The farm has 85% well developed peat flats with 15% flat clay soils with an excellent fertiliser history. The farm has a modern machinery fleet and excellent farm infrastructure with a modern 54 bale rotary with ACRs. The farm also has pro rata grazing rights on internal owned and operated runoffs for rising one, rising two and winter cow grazing.
The scale of farm allows for full time or part time work for partners and extended family members.
An offer of employment is conditional upon passing a pre-employment drug and alcohol test which may include hair follicle drug testing.
Please apply via email with a cover letter and CV with at least two current verbal referees or email any enquiries to: