Closing: Apr 12, 2024
This position has expiredPublished: Mar 19, 2024 (2 months ago)
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Qualifications
- Interested candidates should possess a B.Agric / M.Agric Degree with 3-5 years experience.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
- Interested candidates should possess a B.Agric / M.Agric Degree with 3-5 years experience.
- Plan finances and production to maintain farm progress against budget parameters
- Undertake practical activities, such as driving tractors, operating machinery, feeding livestock or spraying fields
- Market the farm's products
- Buy supplies, such as fertiliser and seeds
- Arrange the maintenance and repair of farm buildings, machinery and equipment
- Plan activities for trainee staff, mentoring and monitoring them
- Maintain and monitor the quality of yield, whether livestock or crops
- Understand the implications of the weather and make contingency plans
- Make sure products are ready for deadlines, such as auctions and markets
- Ensure that farm activities comply with government regulations
- Monitor animal health and welfare, including liaising with vets
- Maintain knowledge of pests and diseases and an understanding of how they spread and how to treat them
- Apply health and safety standards across the farm estate
- Protect the environment and maintaining biodiversity
- Keep financial records up to date
- Apply for funding - if appropriate.
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