1. Geoff
Wickham's Dairy
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.
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 .

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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 .