Victoria, Australia: Herd Manager: We are seeking a herd Manager who will be responsible for overall management of the 800 cow dairy herd.This will include  milking, herd health and breeding. They will also be expected to manage, coordinate and share duties and responsibilities with the assistant herd managers.They will be making decisions about the  day-to-day operation, such as  breeding, health treatment or culling cows. They wil also be expected to decide when vets or other service personnel need to be called. Discussion on herd nutrition issues with the feed manager is also part of the duties.

Some information on the farm itself:


The farm is a pasture based irrigated dairy farm.
 
The herd comprises of 800 milkers with enough replacements to take milker numbers to 900 next year. The herd calves in two seasons Spring and Autumn. Production is around 8500 litres per cow annually or around 6 million litres for the farm. The herds diet is predominately pasture, but quite a lot of grain is fed in the dairy as well as silage that is fed on a feed pad.  Cows are milked using a 50 unit rotary, that has a auto ID system that manages individual cows. The biggest issues the herd faces are:
1) Lameness 2) Mastitis 3) Fertility 

The milking area consists of 300 hectares of irrigated pastures consisting of ryegrass and lucerne. We have an computer operated automated flood irrigation system with pipes in the ground. We are trying to grow as much feed as we can year round, some pasture is dried off over the summer months and then needs to be re-sown in the autumn.
Our biggest issues with the farm are:
1) Water availability
2) Pasture production

Average Hours/Day: 8-10 hours Average Hours/Week: 40-50 hours.A good attitude to work and good work ethic is essential
The supervision of this position will be performed by the owners.

If you are interested  and feel you have the ability to be successsful and have the necessary background experience to demonstrate this ,we want to hear from you now.Please send us your CV and cover email quoting "Victoria Senior Manager "  to info@farmSolutions.ie or call the Irish office on 053 9236222

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