Career of the Week – Farm Assistant

Love fresh air and the outdoors? Enjoy working with animals? If so, have you considered a career as a farm assistant? Farm assistants help farmers with a variety of tasks, including raising and caring for animals, repairs and maintenance, tractor work and other farming activities.

Farm assistants may do some or all of the following:

• move animals between paddocks

• drench and dip animals, and give them medicines

• operate farm machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest crops

• provide animals with food and water

• attend to animals while they are sick or giving birth

• groom, feed and care for horses

• collect, sort and pack animal products such as eggs or wool

• clean and repair buildings, yards and fences

• operate and maintain farm machinery such as tractors and wool-pressing machines.

Check out the video below for more information

https://youtu.be/3ynahpnEGqE?feature=shared

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