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Dairy Farmer resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what dairy farmers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most dairy farmers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Dairy farmer with hands-on experience running milking herds, managing pasture and herd health programs. Skilled in operating milking plant and farm machinery, keeping accurate production and compliance records. Committed to animal welfare and consistent milk quality.
Key skills
- Animal care and handling
- Plant and equipment operation
- Operations management
- Inventory management
- DairyCOMP 305 herd management software
- Tru-Test milk meters
- Lely robotic milking systems
- AgriWebb farm management software
- Spreadsheet and herd record software
- Work health and safety compliance
- Physical stamina and dexterity
- People leadership
Experience: example bullet points
- Milked a herd of 300 cows on a twice-daily roster, monitoring udder health and treating clinical cases promptly.
- Managed pasture rotation across 150 hectares, adjusting supplementary feeding to maintain body condition through dry periods.
- Ran herd health program including vaccination, drenching and mating, achieving consistent calving rates.
- Serviced and maintained milking plant, fences and water systems, reducing unplanned downtime.
- Kept herd, production, chemical and compliance records using DairyCOMP 305 and AgriWebb.
- Trained and supervised two junior farm hands in milking hygiene and safe animal handling.
Education
Year 12 or equivalent, with a Certificate III or IV in Agriculture (Dairy Production) common; many dairy farmers also complete short courses in artificial insemination, chemical handling or farm business management.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Dairy Australia
- Work Health and Safety
- WHS
- mastitis control
- pasture rotation
- calf rearing
- artificial insemination
- DairyCOMP 305
- Tru-Test
- Lely
- AgriWebb
- milk quality
- effluent management
- chemical handling
- TAFE
- Certificate III in Agriculture
- herd health
- farm records
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.