Mark Lawson

Driving a four deck livestock unit , Reporting to my dispatcher carrying out duties to the best of my ability, at verious time's driving other truck combinations tipper and flat deck carting and spreading race rock and hay silage, machines , and freight

• Driving a 2007 Isuzu 4 deck truck and trailer unit
• Carting and loading sheep, cattle, pigs and the odd horse.

• Driving of class 4 trucks; Operation of triple class mowers; Disc and roller drills; Carting of grass and maize both in trucks and tractors; Operation of power harrows; Cartage of palm kernel and metal; Workshop duties including rebuilding of disc drills and maize planters.

• Operating round and big square bale wrappers; Raking of grass silage; Cartage of grass and maize silage in bins; Grass and maize stacks; Cultivation work using disc, ploughs and power harrows; Disc drilling; Field and workshop repairs and/or maintenance of equipment.

• Manual operation of small square wrapper; Teddering of hay and raking for a conventional square baler; Various stock work and other projects.

• Day to day running of farm (844 cows); Stock feeding, pasture management; Record keeping, staff training and direction.

• Assistant Farm Manager (1050 cows); Feed Pad Operator (2500 cows); Farm Manager - drying off and preparing farm for next season (750 cows).

• Pasture management for herd; Farm development; Stock feeding and effluent application; Management and co-ordination of machinery maintenance.

• Maintenance and servicing of vast array of machinery (from mowers to 12 tonne diggers)
• Light engineering on farm equipment (e.g
• Tractors, silage wagons and cow sheds; Servicing tractors and motorbikes. Making trailer axel's farm trailers , engine work cambelts engine rebuild, electrical system conversion and fault finding

• Milking 360 cows and managing junior assistant; Despite a wet spring, low autumn cover and a dry summer the farm had a good year and finished with a profit.

• Day to day farm operations; Selecting paddocks for grazing; Collecting cows and calves in spring; Removing existing fences and re-fencing 80 acres; Re-racing to a central race.

• General farm duties including Interlact feeding and cultivation; Part of a farm record setting team.

• Stock and pasture management (through regular farm walks and use of a plate meter); Responsible for management of second herd.

• Pasture management, stock records, feeding, milking and animal husbandry.