AddressCompany Overview:
Ulupna Pastoral Company operates across 27,500 acres of irrigation land located in Nth Victoria and Southern NSW, that is double-cropped to provide security for our growing and progressive livestock team. We are a young and forward-thinking organization that values diversity and encourages applicants from various backgrounds. We pride ourselves on attracting fresh talent into the business, with a view of growing together.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Operating tractors, seeders, spray booms, harvesters and other associated agricultural machinery.
- Crop maintenance tasks including field preparation, seeding, maintenance and harvesting, the safe application of fertilisers/chemicals and other associated tasks.
- Play a role in the maintenance/modification of machinery when necessary.
- Work to scheduling guidelines
- Winter and summer planting and crop protection programs.
- Deep ripping and earthworks for cropping fields.
- Reporting on plant growth stages, fallow reports, and yield reports.
- Communicating with company agronomist to achieve the best outcome for our cropping programs.
- Ensure accurate administration of cropping tasks are updated including completion of all tasks completed on that day on the farm management software platform.
- The set-up, calibration and scheduling of planters, cultivation equipment, spray rigs and general farm machinery
- Assisting with grain storage and handling
