Manager Equipment

James W. Swensgard

**** ***** ****

Laurel, Montana 59044

Cell 406-***-****

*************@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Highly driven, motivated, multifaceted candidate seeks position in AGRIBUSINESS where I can utilize my agriculture skills: Growing up on my family farm 26 miles north of Fort Benton (6,000 acres) where I learned the fundamentals of farming, Purchased 2200 acre farm at age of 20. Additionally I offer a formal training in diesel engine, heavy equipment certification. Plus 40 years of hands on operational control of farming.

ESSENITAL SKILLS

• Work with others

• Decision making

• Job task planning & Organization

• Critical Thinking

• Problem solving

• Administering of Safety Program

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Managed work force from 5-50 employees

• Oversaw all field, fertilizing, field prep, planting, spraying, harvesting and storing of crops

• Chiseling, along wit all other operations from seeding to harvest

• Knowledge of GPS operated equipment

• Maintained all farm equipment, machinery and buildings

• Budgeting, marketing, and purchasing

TYPE OF EQUIPMENT OPERATED

• Modern Case IH, John Deere tractors, combines, tillage, air drills, hoe drills, plus many different typrs

• Semi Trucks

• Elevator Legs, Augers, bin dryers

• GPS Auto Steering equipment

• Pilot of Aircraft 15000 flight hours

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Swensgard Farms

P.O. Box 537

Fort Benton, Montana

One of 3 boys working on family farm duties included:

• Fencing

• Summer fallow

• Spraying

• Seeding

• Combine operation

• Truck operation

• Grain storage and hauling

• Servicing farm equipment

• In winter worked on equipment getting it ready for the spring

Swensgard Inc.

Po Box 126 Fort Benton, Montana

Owner Operator of 2200 acre grain farm

Arranged yearly financing of farm budget with PCA

• Operation of the following equipment

a. 4 wheel drive tractors

b. Farm Grain trucks (Ford 9000 diesel grain trucks 22 foot beds with pup)

c. Sprayers (spray coupes)

d. Hoe drills and later air seeders

e. Disks

f. Harrows

g. Chisel plows

h. Rollers

i. Bailers

j. Swathes

• Market gain

• Hauled grain

• Limited irrigation

The duties I performed on my farm were that of any farm in Montana to run a well-organized operation for return of maximum profit. The farm was sold due to a divorce settlement in 2008

YOUNG Living Farms (9 Total farms in Seven Countries)

Lehi, Utah

Jay Anderton 801-***-**** Global Farm Manager (Direct Supervisor)

• General Farm Manager (1600 Acre Essential Oil Farm)

• Irrigation (10 Center Pivots, 6 wheel lines)

• 26 year round employees, 40 seasonal employees

• Equipment maintenance shop and maintenance mechanic

• 450 acres alpha

• Wheat, barley

• Budgeting

• Fabrication Shop

• Construction of earth water damn

• Distillery operation of plants for oils

Chouteau County ASCS Office

Fort Benton, Montana

Pilot and Crop Measurement Assistant

Flew my Cessna 182 fitted with cameras and computers for crop certification and measurement. These photo missions allowed for constant check on certification of reported grain crops and acres, using computer generated image of tillable lands (from photos taken from aircraft) for new farm mapping for the county, measured grain stored on farm which was under loan for accurate bushel count, and using tranquillization for land measurement.

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