2022 2024: Farm, Chedworth, Gloucestershire

Lived and worked as Dairy Herd Manager on this 500-acre organic dairy farm, producing high quality milk from grass for an on-site cheese maker, with surplus being sold to a local dairy. Duties included, but certainly not limited to: milking circa 200 cross-bred cows on a spring/autumn block, all associated herd health tasks, youngstock rearing, fertility management, cropping and grazing management and implementing grazing plans. Using Uniform, CTS (registering births and deaths, on/off movements etc.), assisting the owner with auditing. Managing and directing a team of up to 6 staff members (though regularly lone working), implementing new protocols regarding day-to-day routine, bio-security and future business goals and infrastructure planning. Working closely with the farm owner, vets and consultant.

2021 2022: Farm, Lancashire

Worked as Stockman/GFW milking 380 pedigree Holsteins calving AYR. Duties included, but not limited to: milking in a 16/16 DeLaval herringbone parlour, AI, overseeing vaccination programmes, calving, yard and bedding duties, feeding groups of cows with a Total Mixed Ration, farm maintenance and building work (welding and fabricating, new concreting and cubicle projects).

All associated field works and forage harvesting. Working with and directing a small team.

2020 2021: Beef, Devon

Lived and worked as Herdsman on this PFLA certified farm. Day to day responsibility of a 700 head, pedigree Aberdeen Angus suckler herd. Roles included but not limited to: grazing management utilising mob grazing techniques, all associated husbandry tasks, all associated machinery work (tractor and trailer, telehandler, etc.), administering drugs according to veterinary advice, filling in medicine records, liaising with the vet, calving duties (some with complications), taking finished animals to the abattoir, feeding animals a Total Mixed Ration in accordance with weekly feeding regime in winter months. Also at times, when the farms Team Leader was away, I oversaw a small team including a young apprentice.

2016 - 2020: Self-Employed

Landscaper, including paving and driveway design and construction, tree work, stone wall repairs/construction and traditional hedge laying.

Stockman/GFW/Tractor Driver working on various farms, roles included but not limited to field drainage, tractor and trailer work, vaccinating sheep, drafting stock for sale and assisting with PD scanning on ewes.

2019: Charente, France

Working for an agency on various farms, roles included: relief stockman on sheep and cattle farms, relief milker, tractor and machinery operator, carting and stacking baled forage, assisting the vet with the vaccinations of veal calves, sheep shearing, sheep dipping, all stages of hay making, grass and maize silage production and primary field cultivations.

2019: Charente, France

Stonemason working on residential and public building projects, using traditional methods, including a Town Hall communal park funded by the Israeli State.

2018: Haute Vienne, France

Lived and worked as Herdsman/GFW on this farm, with responsibility of the care of 70 Limousin heifers/bulls, grazing management and forage production on a 200 acre mixed farm. Other roles included but not limited to tractor and machinery operation/repairs, infrastructure maintenance, hedge cutting, field drainage and involvement in the harvesting and cultivation of cereal crops.

2013 - 2018: Self-Employed Shepherd, Lancashire

I owned and bred a small flock of Lonk sheep, breeding and selling registered males and females.

2016 - 2017: Dairies, Lancashire

Milkman delivering fresh milk to homes and businesses as well as cash handling.

2013 - 2014 & 2016: Farm, Lancashire

Relief milker and GFW on a 180 head dairy farm, responsible for all aspects of milking and parlour hygiene, feeding cows with a diet feeder, feeding and rearing calves.

2015 2016: Lancashire

Assistant Spring Maker and Blacksmith, undertaking all aspects of the production of traditional, hand made leaf spring suspension for various applications, from horse carriages to small aircraft.

2015: Farm, Lancashire

GFW and Machinery Operator on a sheep and cattle farm, roles included sheep and cattle handling, sheep dipping and light field work.

2014: Farm, Ayrshire, Scotland

Lived and worked as milker and GFW on a 280 head dairy farm, responsible for all aspects of daily milking routine and parlour hygiene.

2013: Farm, Lancashire

GFW on a sheep and cattle farm, carrying out all aspects of sheep and cattle husbandry, including sheep shearing, calving, mucking out buildings, feeding cattle and grass silage production.

2012: British Army

Trooper in the Life Guards Regiment, part of the Household Cavalry.

2009: Exhaust & Tyres, Lancashire

General assistant and assistant tyre fitter.