Certificate III in Agriculture (Dairy Production) - AHC30216

Tocal College

Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
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This qualification provides an occupational outcome in the dairy industry. The dairy industry expects that graduates from this qualification will be able to perform a range of tasks associated with a person performing the job role of a dairy farmhand. This qualification is suitable for an Australian Apprenticeship.No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

Structure

  • 17 units: 11 core
  • 6 elective

Subjects

  • Implement animal health control programs
  • Plan and construct an electric fence
  • Provide on-job training support
  • Service and repair bores and windmills
  • Artificially inseminate livestock
  • Coordinate and monitor livestock transport
  • Coordinate artificial insemination and fertility management of livestock
  • Monitor weather conditions
  • Prepare and apply chemicals
  • Collect samples for a rural production or horticulture monitoring program
  • Transport and store chemicals
  • Identify and draft livestock
  • Operate specialised machinery and equipment
  • Implement a plant nutrition program
  • Respond to emergencies
  • Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
  • Implement procedures for calving
  • Operate a dairy recycling system
  • Coordinate work site activities
  • Castrate livestock
  • Implement property improvement, construction and repair
  • Plan and construct conventional fencing
  • Collect, store and administer colostrum
  • Maintain and monitor feed stocks
  • Contribute to work health and safety processes
  • Transport farm produce or bulk materials
  • Administer medication to livestock
  • Establish pastures and crops for livestock production
  • Coordinate milking operations
  • Implement feeding plans for livestock
  • Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
  • Rear newborn and young livestock
  • Undertake preparation of land for agricultural crop production
  • Maintain livestock water supplies
  • Mix and mill standard stockfeed
  • 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
  • Undertake agricultural crop harvesting activities
  • Maintain pastures and crops for livestock production
  • Establish agricultural crops
  • Maintain agricultural crops

Further information

This qualification is suitable for an Australian Apprenticeship.

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