share milker

plural share milkers

1. alternativeAlternative form of sharemilker.

   Often dairy farms were owned and operated by different individuals and the operator, the share milker, carried enormous burdens in poor economic times.

   2014, John C. Weaver, Sorrows of a Century: Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900–2000, →ISBN

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   The usual form of contract is a 50 per cent agreement whereby the share milker provides the herd and farm machinery, and is responsible for all farm operations, in return for which he receives half the butterfat cheque, plus a proportion of any additional income such as bobby calves.

   1968 -, Agriculture: The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, page 371

   The milking and day-to-day management on the main farm is carried out by a share milker, who shares both the costs and profits, and the other block has a young manager who has some, but lesser, profit-share arrangements.

   2010, Peter Leslie Nuthall, Farm Business Management: The Human Factor, →ISBN, page 13