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Simon Wakefield works in Canterbury, New Zealand, on one of the world s only deer milking farms.
Simon Wakefield left Ireland in February 2013 to embark on a six-month working holiday with friends from his agricultural business course in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
Almost eight years later, he is still in New Zealand, but working on a very different project to what he originally planned.
“It was part of our course to do six months’ work experience in a business, so we went to a large scale dairy farm in Maniototo Otago, South Island,” he tells the
Irish Farmers Journal. The farm consisted of 1,600 cows on a low input system across two farms.