Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation Level: Pre-degree CRICOS:
This qualification provides a general vocational outcome in agriculture. The qualification enables individuals to select a livestock production, cropping or livestock context as a job focus or, in the case of mixed farming enterprises, both cropping and livestock.Individuals with this qualification perform tasks in a variety of contexts, which involve some judgement in selecting equipment and services. Job roles vary across different industry sectors and may include: Farm or station hand Farm or station worker Livestock transport driver. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Structure
16 units: 2 core
14 elective
Subjects
Prepare fleece wool for classing
Provide first aid in remote situations
Perform routine gas tungsten arc welding
Process workplace documentation
Plan, prepare and conduct mulesing procedures
Carry out feedlot operations
Plan and prepare for alpaca shearing
Operate land-forming machinery and equipment
Transport machinery
Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
Operate row crop planting and seeding machinery and equipment
Implement animal health control programs
Test grains and seeds on receival
Plan and construct an electric fence
Prepare workplace documents
Weld using gas tungsten arc welding process
Monitor pen condition and ration suitability
Carry out emergency disease or plant pest control procedures at infected premises
Enter and work in confined spaces
Use hand held e-business tools
Service and repair bores and windmills
Operate chemical application machinery and equipment
Demonstrate first attack firefighting equipment
Perform manual heating and thermal cutting
Conduct site inspections
Artificially inseminate livestock
Operate broadacre and row crop harvest machinery and equipment
Carry out post-shearing procedures
Install and terminate extra low voltage wiring systems
Coordinate and monitor livestock transport
Operate precision control technology
Coordinate artificial insemination and fertility management of livestock
Operate tractors
Monitor weather conditions
Troubleshoot irrigation systems
Slaughter livestock
Prepare and apply chemicals
Collect samples for a rural production or horticulture monitoring program
Prepare livestock for competition
Transport and store chemicals
Perform routine oxy acetylene welding
Identify and draft livestock
Operate machinery and equipment
Class goat fibre
Load and unload vehicles carrying special loads
Operate specialised machinery and equipment
Implement pest management strategies
Implement a plant nutrition program
Apply fatigue management strategies
Respond to emergencies
Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
Monitor livestock production growing environments
Implement procedures for calving
Coordinate work site activities
Castrate livestock
Process customer complaints
Respond to wildfire
Conduct civil construction grader operations
Implement property improvement, construction and repair
Process and maintain workplace information
Prepare to receive grains and seeds
Communicate electronically
Plan and construct conventional fencing
Monitor animals in intensive production systems
Operate a cane harvester
Install drainage systems
Operate side by side utility vehicles
Coordinate horticultural crop harvesting
Care for livestock in transit
Collect, store and administer colostrum
Conduct civil construction skid steer loader operations
Euthanase livestock
Maintain and monitor feed stocks
Licence to operate a forklift truck
Conduct dropped ovary technique procedures for spaying cattle
Coordinate and monitor production performance
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Control weeds
Plan to exhibit livestock
Establish horticultural crops
Provide information on plants and their culture
Conduct grader operations
Transport farm produce or bulk materials
Use application equipment to apply fumigant in confined spaces
Implement a maintenance program for hydroponic systems
Prepare livestock for shearing
Implement a post-harvest program
Plan a plant establishment program
Class alpaca fleece
Work effectively in an emergency disease or plant pest response
Administer medication to livestock
Install hydroponic systems
Press wool for a clip
Establish pastures and crops for livestock production
Operate pressurised irrigation systems
Work in a team
Implement feeding plans for livestock
Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
Weld using gas metal arc welding process
Interpret road maps and navigate pre-determined routes
Sample soils and interpret results
Prepare combs and cutters for machine shearing
Collect semen
Perform machinery maintenance
Plan and navigate routes
Carry out post-mortem examination of livestock
Rear newborn and young livestock
Operate mobile irrigation machinery and equipment
Perform routine gas metal arc welding
Identify and report unusual disease or plant pest signs
Undertake preparation of land for agricultural crop production
Maintain livestock water supplies
Conduct manual fumigation of vertebrate and invertebrate pests
Work effectively in the industry
Operate broadacre sowing machinery and equipment
Design and produce business documents
Conduct backhoe/loader operations
Regulate crops
Process and store semen
Prepare facilities for shearing and crutching
Weld using manual metal arc welding process
Care for and train working dogs
Plan for and provide nutritional requirements for animals
Fumigate soil
Maintain financial records
Mix and mill standard stockfeed
Ground spread fertiliser and soil ameliorant
Provide first aid
Prepare for and implement natural mating of livestock
Conserve forage
Comply with industry animal welfare requirements
Remove and facilitate reuse of effluent and manure from an intensive production system
Identify plant specimens
Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair
Undertake agricultural crop harvesting activities
Carry out movement and security procedures
Maintain pastures and crops for livestock production
Perform shed duties
Implement feeding plans for intensive production
Establish agricultural crops
Maintain agricultural crops
Keep production records for a primary production business
Harvest horticultural crops mechanically
Handle bulk materials in storage area
Use business technology
Work safely at heights
Conduct front-end loader operations
Operate and maintain gravity fed irrigation systems
Maintain and monitor animal health and wellbeing
Estimate/calculate mass, area and quantify dimensions