Head Herdsperson

We have a new contract vacancy for an experienced person to join a 450-acre family farming operation, near Glastonbury, Somerset.

This 285-cow herd of Holsteins are all year-round calving and yielding 10,500 litres with good components on 2 x milking via a 24 x 24 Fullwood herringbone parlour with Crystal software. The parlour is modern, well maintained and includes an auto post teat spray, along with excellent handling facilities.

Cows are housed year-round, fed a home-grown grass and maize TMR with additional cake in the parlour, housed in cubicles with mattresses bedded with sawdust.

The appointed person who will have a full-time assistant will be responsible for all milkings, sorting cows for the fortnightly vet visit, and the contract foot trimmer, keeping the parlour in a clean and maintained condition, taking responsibility for all paperwork to include the medicine book, daily diary, Delvo testing, entering all information in the Uniform software, w...

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