We pride ourselves on supplying award winning milk for consumers on the Holiday coast, we do this by leading best practice management on our dairy farm
As an award-winning business, and our aim is pretty simple – Be the best dairy farmer.
The dairy farm is located on Oxley Island in NSW, we milk 800 cows through a well set up 60 bail rotary, automatic cup removers, heatime -cow heat detection, teat-spray and drafting.
This progressive dairy farm achieves:
1. Award winning milk quality (BMCC averages around 70 for the year, in top 100 farms in Australia for BMCC for 5 years),
2. high rates of pasture utilisation, 11 t/ha for dryland farm,
3. high in-calf rates and,
4. low stock mortality.
If you think you can help maintain this we would like to hear from you!
The dairy farm job
This dairy farm work is predominantly a milking role, requiring milking twice a day
·Experience with milking on rotary preferable, able to put on 6 cups per min
·Fetching cows on a quad to the dairy, following dairy procedures precisely and Driving tractors-sowing, mowing, silage making
Milking experience, driving tractors, feeding calves highly desirable, may suit a couple or two friends. Our location qualifies for 88 days to complete WHV. Immediate start for a term of 3 months, or longer for the right person, sponsorship may also be possible for right person who fits in with the team. Award rates of pay, around 40 plus hours per week on average. Base rate for casual under pastoral award $29.33, $41.06 for overtime hours and, $52.79 for public holidays, with higher rates based on dairy experience.
Location
The farm is on an Island in a beautiful sub-tropical area, on a major river, has good fishing, close to beaches, schools and towns (15 min)(population 20,000). It is 3.5 hours North of centre of Sydney and 2 hours North of Newcastle
Accommodation available for the right person, or there is a room available in share house $100 a week, if house kept clean.
