Reference Number: NA-6262417746
Farm / Ranch
Candidate Description:
This Hansen Agri-PLACEMENT candidate was a self-employed farmer and worked on his family's Iowa farm his whole life. In March 2020 he took a position as a Farm Manager for a beef cattle farm in Colorado with 1200 acres of programmable pivot irrigation and 300 head of Angus cattle. His current employer is selling the property and moving out of Colorado. He is currently responsible for feeding, vaccinating and overall herd health of all the cows and calves. He plants, seeds, disks, and cultivates fields for oats, wheat and triticale grass. His experience is diverse and includes dryland crop production and harvest, along with milking twice daily, calving and herd health, calculating and mixing feed rations. He operates machinery such as combine, tractors, front end loader, skid loader, planter, disc and drag, manure hauler, dump truck and various farm implements as needed. He prepares seedbeds for alfalfa, corn, peas and barley and the harvest of crops at the end of the growing season. He has experience in maintaining and repairing fences, bedding stalls, scraping of cow shed and manure hauling and spreading. He can identify and treat cow and calf health issues. He performs general maintenance of farm machinery. He enjoys working with livestock and the agriculture industry in general and would like to continue to work on a diversified farm. He is honest, hardworking and has a strong moral compass.
Contact Info:
If you would like to consider this candidate for your position, please refer to their Reference Number and contact Eric Hansen at eric@hansenagriplacement.com or call 308-382-7351.