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Career of the Week – Farm Assistant

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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