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Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Working with dry stock, arable and dairy farmers to enhance their business. Duties included:Farm financials - Analysing farm budgets and cash flows to help drive efficiencies. Creating budgets and cash flows for new businesses or expansion of current farms.Recruitment - Running recruitment for farm managers, contract milkers and share milkers.Farm system modelling - Modelling current farm systems and future systems using tools like Farmax and Overseer to assess the impact on farm changes might have on the overall farm system.Multispectral drone imagery - Monitoring arable broadacre crops using a drone and multispectral imagery to inform nutrient and chemical applications, assess irrigation efficiency, and completing plant population counts to be used in yield assessments.

Darfield, Canterbury, New Zealand

Working with clients to assist them with navigating the complex world of farm environmental compliance, whilst maintaining and improving their farm efficiency and profitability. Environmental world included:Nutrient management - Overseer nutrient budgets for compliance, due diligence, and consenting purposes.Dairy Effluent Warrant of Fitnesses - Accredited Dairy Effluent Warrant of Fitness Advisor. Consenting - Preparing and guiding farmers through land use consents, discharge consents, and changes to existing consents.Farm finance and budgeting - Preparing financial budgets and cash flows for current and new businesses.Business feasibility - Assessing business viability, including changes to current business, and the purchasing of new farm businesses.Farm system modelling - Using Farmax to assess how on farm changes might impact the efficiency, profitability, and viability of farm businesses.

Ashburton

Creating and updating Farm Environment Plans, nutrient budgets, providing practical advice around good management practices, and keeping shareholders informed and working towards their environmental requirements.

Tararua

Managed a 14,000 tonne, $6m fertiliser, agrochemical and animal health portfolio. Customers included dairy and sheep and beef businesses across the Tararua district. Responsibilities included making recommendations to add value to farmers through:Fertiliser planning: Interpreted soil test, herbage test, and nutrient budget information to provide a whole-farm nutrient recommendation for maintenance and capital fertiliser requirements in line with productivity, environmental, and profitability goalsNutrient Budgeting: Utilised soil analysis and other key farm information as the basis to model nutrient inputs and outputs of farming operations using the Overseer nutrient budgeting programmeFarm Production Planning: Analysed a range of key farm information to plan fertiliser and lime requirements, and best management practices, optimising productivity and minimising environmental lossesEnvironmental Consultancy: Provided advice to deal through the complexity of environmental and regulatory constraints relevant to the farmer

Christchurch

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

Farm worker. Milking cows, moving cows, helping during the calving period, spreading fertiliser, spraying weeds.

Bachelor’S Degree, Physical Sciences

Mandarin

A 1 year Chinese government scholarship to study the Chinese language.

Chinese 2A And 2B, Chinese Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Kayaking club, the outdoors club.Part time Chinese language study

Mandarin

1 month Confucius Institute scholarship to study in China