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Grain Grower resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what grain growers 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 grain growers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
I am a broadacre grain grower with hands-on experience planning rotations, operating headers and tractors, and managing harvest logistics for cereal and canola crops. My focus is on soil health, compliant chemical use and getting grain into storage in good condition. I combine practical field work with budgeting, record keeping and machinery maintenance.
Key skills
- Operations management
- Plant and equipment operation
- Field inspection and testing
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Supply chain planning
- Regulatory compliance
- Agworld
- John Deere Operations Center
- Climate FieldView
- Trimble Ag Software
- Microsoft Excel
- Problem solving
- Physical stamina and dexterity
Experience: example bullet points
- Operated and maintained tractors, seed drills and headers across a broadacre cropping program, keeping machinery available through sowing and harvest windows.
- Monitored soil moisture, crop growth and disease pressure through regular field inspections, adjusting inputs before yield was affected.
- Coordinated harvest, grain storage and transport for multiple paddocks, reducing turnaround from five days to three during peak periods.
- Applied fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides according to label directions and safety rules, maintaining chemical records for compliance audits.
- Built seasonal budgets and cash flow forecasts in Excel, tracking input costs against actuals to guide the next rotation.
- Used Agworld and John Deere Operations Center to record paddock operations, plan spraying and share maps with staff.
Education
Year 12 or equivalent is the most common entry point, often combined with a Certificate III or IV in Agriculture or Rural Operations; many growers also complete short courses in chemical handling, machinery operation 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.
- broadacre cropping
- grain production
- wheat
- barley
- canola
- header operation
- tractor operation
- controlled traffic farming
- no-till farming
- chemical handling
- ChemCert
- APVMA
- Work Health and Safety
- WHS
- Grain Trade Australia
- Agworld
- John Deere Operations Center
- Climate FieldView
- Trimble Ag Software
- grain storage
- harvest logistics
- soil testing
- crop rotation
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.