Ryan Van Hierden

Maintained CQM Validation:

• Recorded and reported cattle inventories with Dairy Trace and Livestock Identification Services (LIS).
• Monitored animal health, diagnosed animals, and administered treatments to cows.
• Maintained animal treatment records and followed proper drug residue protocols.
• Created an environmental farm protocol (EFP).
• Created and maintained farm corrective action plans to prevent problems as well as how to deal with problems.
• Ensured barn, milking equipment, and chemicals met government specifications.

Administrative Duties:

• Farm main contact and was on call 24/7.
• Successfully applied for government subsidies and grant programs.
• Ordered feed, vet supplies, cleaning supplies, gravel, and replacement parts.
• Coordinated corral cleaning, seeding and harvesting, hoof trimming, and any specialized help.
• Bought and sold Quota for milk production. Quota allows you to produce a specific volume of milk at all times of year.
• Traded milk total production quota (TPQ) credits with other farmers.

Daily Duties:

• Checked pens, waterers, fences, field for maintenance related issues.
• Milked cows twice a day: 90% of the time unassisted.
• Emergency repairs of fences and milking equipment.
• Operated heavy equipment (tractors, skidsteer, bobcat, payloader, backhoe, post pounder, combine, swather, manure spreader) to feed cows, cleanup manure, level yard, repair broken waterlines, harvest crops, repair fences, and unload deliveries.