From my experience with AFGRI I realised that I didn't want to continue with an apprenticeship and that the Marcus Oldham pathway would better suit me because it will have a better impact in my future career in agriculture than an apprenticeship would.
- Speed Tilling.
- Servicing and general maintenance of seeding equipment.
- Driving the seeder.
- Cleaning down the seeder.
- Servicing and operating the deep ripper.
- Servicing and general maintenance of harvesting equipment.
- Driving a harvester and chaser bin.
- Cleaning down harvesting equipment.
- Vaccinating and drenching sheep.
- Feeding hay and silage to sheep.
- Back-lining sheep.
- Catching and treating fly-struck sheep.
- Crutching ewes.
- Carting and stacking hay.
- Moving sheep.
- feeding straw to ewes in the confinement.
- Removing and replacing fences with the back packers.
- Rock picking.
- Helped build the new set of sheep yards.
- Planting salt bush.
- General farm maintenance
- Cleaning the workshop.
- Cleaning machinery.
- Assisting mechanics with servicing and fixing agricultural equipment.
I did harvest 2021 and 2022 with Hayden and Aliesha
- Servicing harvesters.
- General harvest maintenance.
- Driving a harvester.
- Spreading lime.
- Cleaning down machinery at the end of harvest.
- Stacking and carting hay.
- Baling hay.
- Servicing hay equipment.
- Drove the chaser bin at the start of harvest before I went to Hayden Bock's.
- Rousing for a couple days when they were shearing.
- I assisted with muelsing lambs, vaccinating and capsuling ewes.
- Moving sheep.
- Feeding and carting hay and straw.
- Removing old fences.
- Driving the chaser bin at harvest.
- Driving the super spreader.
- Maintaining and servicing machinery
- Fencing
- Operating farm machinery