Manager Training

John W. Kirby

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Macomb, IL **455

309-***-**** (c.)

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Relevant Work Experience

Swine Prod. Management Carthage Vet Clinic - Carthage, IL

Sept. 2006 - March 2011

* Breeding manager on a 5800 commercial sow unit (Colchetser, IL) 2006-2008

* Trained and developed 9 other employees in my department

* Overseen breeding targets were met every week

* Kept current vacinations/sheets up to date on a weekly basis

* Overseen all gilt developent stages, from iso/nusery unit to gilt selection

before entering the herd

* Weekly body condition scoring on all animals in gestation, for proper feed intake

* Weekly preg checking on all gestation animals 30 days and 50 days along

*Maintained proper ventilation in the barns

*Farm Manager on a 1800 internal multilplication unit with Newsham choice genetics

(Peaksville, MO) 2008-2009

*Overseed all production on farm, from training and developing, staffing the farm, making

breed targets, farrow

targets, wean targets.

*Extensive gilt selection training with 3 lines of genetics.

*Bio-security and enviromental record keeping, lagoon logging.

*Payroll on all employees on farm

*Data entry for newsham genetics, evg reports, agri-soft entry as well

*Composting procedures and training along with composting records.

*Monthly supply ordering for everything on farm, inventory counts

*Weekly semen ordering for 3 seperate genetics

*Handled any maintenance items on farm, from feed line augers/motors, chain disk system,

concrete work, welding, ecs...

*handled all gilts selection for external buyers, and internal for the farm.

*Monthly safety/bio-security meetings with staff and everyday talks about any safety issues

1+years accident free

*Overseen breeding department and farrowing department heads to help maximize overall

production

*Weekly feed ordering

*Farm Manager on a 2400 commercial sow unit with pic genetics (Plymouth, IL) 2009-current

*Managed and trained a staff of 9 people with off -location gilt developers/iso-nursery

*Followed all saftey practices and company procedures

*Follow same practices as the mulitplication farm i have in the above column

*Weekly monthly safety and bio-security meeting

*Payroll/accounting

*Feed ordering

*Upkeep on all maintenance items

*Bio-security and enviromental record keeping

*Agro-soft daily record keeping on all animals

*Vaccinations on all animals/ record keeping

*Maintained all targets on farm

Education/Training

02/03 Astoria Community High School

Attended several training workshops on proper ventilation, bio-security, enviromental

records, composting,

air quality control, animal flow, gilt selections

6 month T.L.E.(Total leadership experience) training

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