Share milking

[New Holland TM150]

Anybody on here who are on a share milking agreement?

Would like to hear about anybody who started from a assistant herdsman and work you way up to a share milker, would like to hear you're journey on how you progress, from working on different farms, to buying you're own cows.

What are you're plans for the future?

 

[Irish NZ]

Hard work.... with the right people.

Don't be afraid to move.

Get your name out there with a good name and attitude through your employment.

Never stop educating yourself.

Saving saving Saving

More hard work.

Oh and learning how to manage people. Not just the guys working under you to how to deal with and communication with guys above you...managers, owners and business partners

Edit; pm me for specifics.

 

[Agrispeed]

I'm entering into a 50:50 share farming agreement this autumn on a beef to dairy conversion.

The short version is: don't become a share farmer on paper. In the Uk they are very complicated and can incur all sorts of problems, chiefly with tax. Instead I was pointed in the direction of a contract farming agreement by consultants. They have a much larger variation, so you can tailor one to suit you much better, and they are considerably less complicated and therefore easier to unravel and also much more clear cut.

CFA's in this country are pretty similar to share farming in NZ. We make it very complicated here for some reason.

 

[New Holland TM150]

Irish NZ you have a pm.

 

[miket1987]

Myself and my wife have done it in the uk. I was assistant herd manager and she was placement student when we met. I then moved to a larger unit as herdsman until she graduated, when we were asked by original farmer to manage a unit they were setting up, we said yes if we could put in stock agreed we could have up to 1/3rd of herd. We rented 15 cows to the farm initially but could increase to 110 cows. They were rented on a Pence per head per day basis and we kept cull and calf money. We managed the farm for a year and rather than asking for a pay rise we wanted to share milk. Partly because we were increasing cow numbers by buying heifer calves and rearing them so spending all our wages on them so could save tax. Secondly we wanted to eventually rent our own farm so could get experience running our own accounts and build up track record with bank etc. We low order share milked taking a percentage of milk cheque to manage cows, paying staff, foot trimmers etc. Now we've got our own tenancy. Took about 7 years to get to milking 100 cows on our tenancy on major advantage is building gradually with not too much reliance on borrowed money.

 

[multi power]

Anybody on here who are on a share milking agreement?

Would like to hear about anybody who started from a assistant herdsman and work you way up to a share milker, would like to hear you're journey on how you progress, from working on different farms, to buying you're own cows.

What are you're plans for the future?

You need to get on a plane to nz

 

[New Holland TM150]

Agree could be more opportunity's in NZ,but would like to stay close to family.

 

[Beef farmer]

Agree could be more opportunity's in NZ,but would like to stay close to family.

You haven't got to emigrate for ever, just work there for a couple of years for a share milker, and see how he/she operates

 

[Devon lad]

Speak to Matthew Jackson he is close to you.
By your other post wanting to start up in dairy as a career I would say your going a bit fast if you have little experience. I currently am in a lower order share milking agreement with my family so is very different to most but fundimentally the same possibly more difficult when it comes with mixing business with family. If I was you I would get straight on a plane to New Zealand, ideally Waikato and do as much work as possible minimum of calving and mating then come back here and put your name about in the area you want as an assistant herdsmans job on a farm/farmer you like. With hard work, constant learning and a good reputation you should be able to get a share milking job within 3 years I would say.