Work Experience on a farm for a day

ecooper123

Member
Location
North Wales
Hi my name is Emily, I am 21 and I am an undergraduate studying Product Design at The University of Huddersfield. I have been asked as part of my research to work on a farm for a day or take observations of farmers working on the farm. I am currently based in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

I was wondering if anybody would be willing to let me take observations of problems and frustrations you face daily or if anybody would be willing to give me the opportunity to work on their farm for the day.

By allowing me to work on your farm or take observations you will be giving consent to me recording this data and including it in my research report for university. The data recorded will comply with the University of Huddersfield data protection and storage policy. You will be anonymously referenced in my research report.

I will look forward to hearing from you,

Thanks,

Emily
 
Hi my name is Emily, I am 21 and I am an undergraduate studying Product Design at The University of Huddersfield. I have been asked as part of my research to work on a farm for a day or take observations of farmers working on the farm. I am currently based in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

I was wondering if anybody would be willing to let me take observations of problems and frustrations you face daily or if anybody would be willing to give me the opportunity to work on their farm for the day.

By allowing me to work on your farm or take observations you will be giving consent to me recording this data and including it in my research report for university. The data recorded will comply with the University of Huddersfield data protection and storage policy. You will be anonymously referenced in my research report.

I will look forward to hearing from you,

Thanks,

Emily
How far are you prepared to go......, distance from Huddersfield? :rolleyes:
 
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ecooper123

Member
Location
North Wales
I am looking for something in in the Yorkshire area if not anywhere around 1 hour 30 minutes maximum. I am originally from Flintshire, North Wales so any thing within an hour radius maximum would be perfect :)

Thanks,

Emily
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Hi my name is Emily, I am 21 and I am an undergraduate studying Product Design at The University of Huddersfield. I have been asked as part of my research to work on a farm for a day or take observations of farmers working on the farm. I am currently based in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

I was wondering if anybody would be willing to let me take observations of problems and frustrations you face daily or if anybody would be willing to give me the opportunity to work on their farm for the day.

By allowing me to work on your farm or take observations you will be giving consent to me recording this data and including it in my research report for university. The data recorded will comply with the University of Huddersfield data protection and storage policy. You will be anonymously referenced in my research report.

I will look forward to hearing from you,

Thanks,

Emily

Morning Emily.

I’m curious, who asked you to work on a farm? Isn’t it your research or someone else bossing?
 

ecooper123

Member
Location
North Wales
I was wondering if anybody would be willing to let me take observations of problems and frustrations you face daily or if anybody would be willing to give me the opportunity to work on their farm for the day.

I am looking for something in in the Yorkshire area if not anywhere around 1 hour 30 minutes maximum. I am originally from Flintshire, North Wales so any thing within an hour radius maximum would be perfect :)

Thanks,

Emily
 

kfpben

Member
Location
Mid Hampshire
Hi Emily, I’m a long way from Yorkshire or Flintshire but if I may can I take you up on a couple of points....

Firstly a day isn’t very long. Im not sure how much you would learn. A week or even a month would be much better. You may be paid for it if you prove useful during a busy time.

Secondly in ‘youth ag’ circles there seems to be a constant emphasis on the problems/frustrations/barriers/unfairness etc. It does my nut in.

As a product designer solutions should be your game. Speak the language of opportunities and ways of doing things better. Optimism drives a business forward and sells products not looking for ‘problems and frustrations’.

Best of luck
 

ecooper123

Member
Location
North Wales
You're not a member of PETA or Compassion in Farming are you ?

Just asking as a local shearing contractor had a Wool Winder that ended up covert filming his every move for weeks, just to get that one time a sheep played up and was pushed on the boards !

Thank you very much I will have a look into it :)
 

Westie

New Member
Hi we are a family run dairy farm in the Halifax area and may be able to help we have a lot of students and work experience come to us. If you could provide a little more info on what your looking for and we’ll go from there.
 

ecooper123

Member
Location
North Wales
Hi we are a family run dairy farm in the Halifax area and may be able to help we have a lot of students and work experience come to us. If you could provide a little more info on what your looking for and we’ll go from there.

Hi,

Thank you very much for getting back to me.

My name is Emily and I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Huddersfield studying Product Design. I am looking into the problems and frustrations that farmers face daily in order to design a product that will solve these issues. I am looking to gain a day or so of experience working on a farm. This will help me to gather information of the struggles you face and how they could be solved. I am also looking to take observations of farmers working on their farm.

It would be an amazing opportunity to work on your farm to gain experience and understanding of your daily life working on the farm.

That would be perfect thank you. :)

Thanks,

Emily
 

Shutesy

Moderator
Arable Farmer
Am I the only person thinking that the OP has got to be a bot?
I think she is a real person with a genuine question. Perhaps a bit of copy and pasting going on with a few nerves possibly, along with a bit of a lack of agricultural and forum knowledge. Not entirely sure why just 1 day on a farm, though I would think she has perhaps been asked to go and get some actual experience by her research tutor.
 

Goweresque

Member
Location
North Wilts
I have to keep copying pasting because I have to use this as evidence in my assignment so I have to explain that I am a student and so on. Sorry that it’s repetitive.

Well if thats the case you can edit your profile so that it has a footer that is stamped on all your posts. If you go to your profile page and click on Signature you can input whatever text you like, and it will be posted at the bottom of every post you make. So your disclaimer can be there, and you don't have to quote slabs of text at everyone each time like a robot :)

Edit: see @FonterraFarmer's posts above - the bit in small type below his comment is his signature.
 

curlietailz

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Sedgefield
Yorkshire and Flintshire will have loads of Young farmers Clubs.
Find one , advertised in local papers or on I Internet usually...
They meet weekly/fortnightly

Ask the secretary for a young farmer who will help you, go to a meeting, have a bit of fun, talk to them and one will probably take you to the farm for a day

Alternatively try your NFU branch.... They will have a few farmers who like to help out.

Both approaches would show you are taking steps to meet your target audience for your assignment
 

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