Hedge Broker

• May 2017 - Present

Groomer

• Nov 2016 - Mar 2017

Entry level snowcat operator, running PistenBully 600 machines. Entry level snowcat operator, running PistenBully 600 machines.

Herdsman

• May 2016 - Nov 2016

Look after all cattle on the farm's owned and leased ground, manage weeds accordingly; handle the ditch water on the row-crop side of things, assist with harvest and transport of corn and soybeans, drill and bale annual forages (oats, sorghum-sudangrass, winter wheat); assist in breeding selection in cattle; synchronize, heat detect, AI operation's replacement heifers (70% conception from AI in last season's heifers, 4 years experience with artificial insemination); I also own 35 cows and 2 bulls in this herd Show less

Hired Man

• May 2008 - May 2016

• Assist in maintenance of 300-head herd of commercial Red Angus cattle • Provide bovine welfare: extensive parturition monitoring and assistance, identification, vaccination, disease control and treatment (pneumonia, pinkeye, haemophilus) • Operate and repair farm equipment • Irrigate, mow, rake, bale, haul alfalfa and grass hay • Remove musk thistles and cedar trees from pastureland • Extensive estrus detection for A.I. • Operate hydraulic squeeze chute during processing of cattle • Service irrigation pivot motors and gearboxes • Assist in film production for Superior Livestock video auction • Sort cattle on basis of size, sex, etc. • Fix and maintain barbed-wire and high-tensile electric wire pasture and cornstalk fence Show less

Student Intern

• Sep 2013 - Dec 2013

Involved in all aspects of the daily operation of the largest cow-calf operation (by head count) in the United States Worked two separate units: -Unit 3: strictly commercial cow-calf, helped sort and ship approximately 2500 calves around Labor Day 2013, gathered and pregnancy tested cows for remainder of time on unit -Unit 2: seedstock unit of the ranch; helped tag and weigh newborn calves, assisted in data entry, synchronized replacement heifers for artificial insemination, I was in charge of placing the liquid feed supplement across the entire unit for the last 3 weeks I was there Show less