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DAIRY FARMING

Intro

Dairy farming has been a big inspiration to me ever since I was old enough to help my dad with all his jobs. I have always wanted to be a dairy farmer because I have an outdoors personality and love to be in a big environments. There are a lot of roles in the dairy farming job, like manager, assistant herd manager, 2ic (second in charge), calf rearer, owner and loads more and today I am going to explain some to you guys. Dairy farming is a job that works with things like tractor work, milking cows, working with cow and calves, organising things, driving motorbikes, maybe doing some digger work and most of all being your own person.

How to enter the job

To become a dairy farmer you don't have to go through university but if you did I would recommend Massey or Lincoln because they give you good opportunities. If you did go to university you would have to do 4-6 years of training, but you would be doing it for a good cause.

Skills

Some of the skills that you would have to have are good communication, good listening, patience, following instructions, common sense and loads more. When you start the job you don't actually have to have skills you can learns a lot of them on the way of becoming a dairy farmer. You might know this but having the right attitude helps you get more jobs and get to better places in dairy farming.

WHAT THIS JOB INVOLVES

In the dairy farming job there is a lot of other jobs like, 2ic which runs the farm when the boss is away on holiday, the manager who is the person to go to if there is something wrong and he or she is the one who sorts it all out. Calf rearer/ milker is the one who feeds the calves and milks the cow when needed, the assistant herd manager is the one who does some milking and  helps out with things on the farm and last but not least the owner who makes all the decisions on the farm and what days all the staff get off.

THE PAY

The newly experienced farmers only get about 45-51k a year it if you want to be an experienced worker you would get about 63-71k a year. I don't really think that this is a lot of money because you think of all the bills that you would have to pay.

The only hard thing

The only hard thing that I could think of is getting up early in the morning to do all the milking oh and all the cow poo that you would have to deal with (well that is according to my teacher.)

What you do in each job

Being a 2ic (second in charge) is a hard job but someone has to do it. In this job you have to do tractor work, general maintenance, capital improvements and servicing of vehicles. Assistant herd manager does a lot of things like helping clean up the cowshed, thistle spraying, sorting out sick cows and sorting the feed for cows.

CONCLUSION

So that is all that i would like to say to you about farming and that you have learnt lots. I hope that in the future you all have the same amount of passion on farming as I do. Dairy farming is what I would recommend for the people that love to do outdoors stuff and love working with big animals. I would also say that it would be great experience for the people that haven’t worked on the farm before or in different environments. If you want the kind of job that gets to work your own hours, meet kind and new people, gets payed well, works with different animals and most of all loves to have fun times then dairy farming is the best job for you.

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Imagine being a...

Getting up before dawn every day is just the job for me.

Even though it is always cold and frosty, I still love to do

what I do.

When I start the machine a big cloud of frost blows out.

The cows moo loudly as they walked slowly down the

wide cow lane to the cow shed.

A frost cloud came rushing out of my mouth, as I breathed out.

The big machines take a while to warm up and standing

in the cold isn’t always the best thing.

As soon as I feed out the silage all the steam came up

and floated into mid air.

All the calves making a sound wanting food ,gives you a

pounding headache everyday.

Imagine being a dairy farmer.

Tannah  

Wishes to star in a movie with action and adventure in it

Dreams to travel around the world

Wants to be a fire-fighter and go over NZ as the leader and supervisor

Wonders about what might happen to me in the future

Fears shark might attack me when I am in the sea

Is afraid about people judging me in a horrible way

Likes going out and helping do the farm work

Believes that people can change the world

Loves to go on adventures for the thrill and adrenaline rush

plans to build a fun and fantastic future

 IN CLASS THIS WEEK WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WHAT MAKES US US AND WHAT IS FUN IN OUR LIVES

Its good to have friends there for you.