Howie Maden

North Island Station. Predominantly breeding with a small finishing sector.

• Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
• Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
• Strong attention to detail whilst completing day to day tasks.

As the shepherd in my role at Kauhouroa Station I am required to complete a range of diverse tasks on a daily basis. This role includes stock movements on a large scale, lambing beats, yard work and general work. The stock movements are a big paddock big mob situation, often with narrow crossings and bluffy areas. Yard work includes drenching, crutching, shearing and vaccinating etc. I am also given the opportunity to break and handle young horses to ride on the lambing beats from August through till docking in October.

Head Shepherd - Intensive Simmental Stud Operation.

• Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.
• Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
• Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
• Strong attention to detail whilst completing day to day tasks.

As the head shepherd in my role at Tangiwai Station I was required to complete a range of diverse tasks on a daily basis. This role included stock movements on a large scale, yard work, detailed record keeping and animal health monitoring. Feed management through break feeding and feeding out supplementary feed (silage). As the head shepherd I was also tasked with the day to day running of the farm while the farm owner/manager was on annual leave, with the longest period being 4 weeks.

Reference:

Jon Knauf - 02102797922

Intensive Bull Finishing Operation with a small breeding sector.

• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
• Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.

As the shepherd general in my role at Tiniroto Station I was required to complete a range of diverse tasks on a daily basis. This role included stock movements, yard work, detailed record keeping and animal health monitoring. Feed management through cell grazing to maximise weight gain against pasture growth. I was also required to do a range of general work such as fencing, water repairs as well as crutching and drenching etc.

Stock Manager - Intensive Cattle Finishing Operation.

• Paid attention to detail while completing assignments.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.

As the Stock Manager in my role at DI &JG Ltd I was required to complete a range of diverse tasks on a daily basis. This role included stock movements, detailed record keeping and animal health monitoring, pasture management, tractor work and development. Feed management through break feeding and implementing a cell grazing system to optimize weight gains and pasture growth. Due to the scale of this block I was not full time on stock, and was required to do a variety of general work such as tractor driving for cropping (market gardening) new as well as repair and maintenance fencing and water works.

Whist in this role I also created a budgeting calculator using excel to manage cash flow and analyse the profitability of variations to the farming model.

Shepherd - Intensive Sheep and Beef Finishing Operation.

• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
• Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.

As the shepherd in my role at Bay Livestock I was required to complete a range of diverse tasks on a daily basis. This role included stock movements, yard work, record keeping and animal growth monitoring. Feed management through break feeding and feeding out supplementary feed (silage). As the shepherd I was also tasked with day to day stock movements, processing lambs (weighing, drenching, crutching) and general work.

This role provided insight into lambing finishing using crops as well as pasture to get maximum weight gain.

Reference:

Selwyn Skudder - 068628818

• Improved pasture quality by rotating grazing areas and managing weed control strategies.
• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.

As the junior shepherd in my role at NCG td I was required to complete a range of diverse tasks on a daily basis. This role included stock movements, yard work and general work such as fencing, water works, tractor driving and spraying. Feed management through break feeding and feeding out supplementary feed (silage). As the junior shepherd I was tasked with most of the stock movements, but the role extended to a much wider range of tasks as listed above. Spraying gorse, blackberry and tobacco weed. Fencing involving new and improved lines as well as general repair and maintenance work. Tractor driving involved feeding out as well as ground work.