Geoff Wickham's DairyWork Experience:

• Milking harvesting1,000 cows

• Dairy Herd Health.• Feeding herd and young stock• Calving/Calf rearing• General Farm Maintenance• Grazing Management• Silage harvesting• Machinery Operation and

Maintenance.• Herding and Handling Stock• Working in a team

environment on a rotating roster.

Introduction and Background:• Eamon Healy doing BSc

in Agricultural Technology

• From a Beef Finishing Farm in County Derry

• Chose Australia for a placement for an experience I could not get at home and to learn more about the Agri-food industry on a global scale.

• The farm was milking 1,000 cows through one 60 point rotary.

Personal Development:• Independence• Problem Solving Techniques• Using Own initiative• Teamwork Skills• Time Management• Interpersonal Skills• Leadership Skills• Learning to be Adaptive• Formed New Working and

Personal Relationships

Conclusion:• Able to see the practical

application of what I have studied.

• Tested to see what I was capable of achieving.

• Experience of living on the other side of the world.

• All made possible by the very generous Wickham family .

Work Experience:• Milking harvesting1,000 cows• Dairy Herd Health.• Feeding herd and young stock• Calving/Calf rearing• General Farm Maintenance• Grazing Management• Silage harvesting• Machinery Operation and

Maintenance.• Herding and Handling Stock• Working in a team environment

on a rotating roster.

Personal Development:• Independence• Problem Solving Techniques• Using Own initiative• Teamwork Skills• Time Management• Interpersonal Skills• Leadership Skills• Learning to be Adaptive• Formed New Working and

Personal Relationships

Conclusion:• Able to see the

practical application of what I have studied.• Tested to see what I

was capable of achieving.• Experience of living

on the other side of the world.• All made possible

by the very generous Wickham family .