Farm Workers Career Details
About this Career
New workers start at around £10,131. Normal pay is £21,450 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £31,528.
Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in Greater London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs.
Daily Tasks
- Carries out maintenance on farm buildings, hedges, ditches and erects and repairs fences.
- Catches, moves, and handles livestock, including in preparation for transport.
- Treats minor ailments, delivers vaccinations and other medicines under the direction of the veterinary surgeon, and assists the veterinary surgeon as required.
- Cleans barns, sheds, pens, yards, incubators and breeding units and sterilises milking and other equipment as necessary.
- Weighs and measures foodstuffs, feeds animals and checks them for any signs of disease.
- Cultivates growing crops by hoeing, spraying and thinning as necessary.
- Operates farm machinery to prepare soil, fertilise and treat crops.
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