dairy livestock enthusiast

Mark Allen Group; United States; Remote; USD 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3-bedroom house on farm

Job summary

LKL Services Ltd is seeking an experienced dairy farming professional to join our home farm unit. The role involves milking, grassland management, and fertility tasks across two connected units.

A seasonal workload provides clearer summer months, and a 3-bedroom house on the farm is provided along with an attractive remuneration package and regular time off. The successful candidate will work with the herd on a forage-based system, handle TMR feeding, and contribute to calf rearing and stock

Qualifications

• Experience in dairy farming preferred.
• Ability to manage forage and grazing operations.
• Familiarity with TMR feeding and stock handling.

Responsibilities

• Milk herd and manage dairy operations.
• Oversee fertility planning and reproduction cycles.
• Manage grassland and forage budgeting.
• Perform stock work across two units and assist with calving season.

Skills

Milking

Grassland management

Fertility management

Job description

LKL Services Ltd

We offer a good 3-bedroom house on the farm, an excellent remuneration package and regular time off., This is the home farm unit, running with an emphasis on forage/grazing and set to run with a sister unit with 340 crossbred cows block calving in the autumn period on each site. There is an excellent mix of responsibilities which includes some milking, with a focus on fertility, grassland management on the original unit with TMR feeding and some associated stock work across the two.

The herds are managed on a forage-based system with the housed period on sand cubicles with semi TMR feeding; the yields are around 8,500 litres a cow. Milking is through a superb 24:48 parlour, DTL with ACR's, complete with autoshedding, heat time and state of the art handling facilities; the home farm also includes excellent calf rearing facilities, silage clamps and feedstores which cater for both units.

This position offers the benefit of a seasonal workload and hence much easier summer months, along with a good 3-bedroom house on the farm, an excellent remuneration package and regular time off.