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Silage in NZ

  • 19-06-2011 11:37am
    #1
    Swinefluproof
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭


    Anybody out there have experience with contracting in New Zealand after the season finishes here? Work over the last few winters has been drying up and wouldn't mind a change of scenery.
    Can you get sorted with job here before heading out there or what's the story?


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  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,705 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    You could try working on the continent cutting maize too, Germany or Holland.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3
    C0N0R
    Registered Users Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Silage out here is all done with trucks for drawing in, you mite get a job on a mower or a rake or a baler or wrapper but alot of them u would need the lorry licence. No experience in getting jobs though never looked into it. Would like to though


  • #4
    .50 (MOA)
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭.50 (MOA)


    i'm just finished up in NZ after 8 months with a contractor over there.

    i started sending emails to any email address i could find for different contractors, eventually 1 of them sent it on to the rural contractors New Zealand organisation, they sent my email to all their members and i got a few bites, saw one i liked the sound of on a sunday, phoned him on tuesday, accepted the job the next sunday, simple as.

    then just sorted out flights and the WHV and was away.

    i did mostly cultivation(ploughing)/rake-bitch. had a wee tour round the south island in february, then tractor and trailer for maize, with bits of regrassing at the same time.

    stackmen were in short supply, if you can stack at all then you should have no bother gettin a job.

    there's different areas you can try to work in for different experience

    South island-

    southland (invercargill/dunedin- that area) is alot like ireland- no/very little maize it rains alot and can be very cold.

    canterbury- large flat area around christchurch- does alot of grain growing, and silage too, but little maize

    and stay away from westland- it's only for the hardcore- you want a place where men are men and sheep are REALLY scared- go there, the frickin sand flies'll have you for dinner and the humidity will clear the table- lol


    north island-

    manawatu/wanganui/taranaki/hamilton -where i was (manawatu), lots and lots of diary- so grass and maize silage all over the place)

    there's isn't so much diry farming in the other areas (hawkes bay, gisborne, northland etc) more fruit/sheep farming goin on.


    if you got any other questions, i'll see what i can do to tell you what i know


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