Certificate III in Agriculture - AHC30122
Federation University Australia
Type of institution: University/Higher Education Institution
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
CRICOS: 00103D
This qualification describes the skills and knowledge for general job roles in agriculture including livestock production, cropping or in the case of mixed farming workplaces, both cropping and livestock. Job roles vary across different industry sectors and may include:Farm or station handFarm or station workerLivestock transport driver.Individuals with this qualification perform tasks under broad supervision involving a broad range of skills that are applied in a wide variety of contexts, which will involve discretion and judgement in selecting and operating equipment, coordinating resources and applying contingency measures during work. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Prepare fleece wool for classing
- Troubleshoot irrigation systems
- Cut, weld and bend materials
- Conduct backhoe/loader operations
- Care for livestock in transit
- Operate a boom type elevating work platform
- Fumigate soil
- Plan, prepare and conduct mulesing procedures
- Use digital technologies to communicate in a work environment
- Carry out feedlot operations
- Operate land-forming machinery and equipment
- Transport machinery
- Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
- Licence to drive a heavy rigid vehicle
- Operate and maintain gravity fed irrigation systems
- Operate row crop planting and seeding machinery and equipment
- Load and unload horses
- Implement animal health control programs
- Prepare workplace documents
- Handle and store seed subject to quarantine regulations
- Plan and construct an electric fence
- Perform complex four wheel drive operations
- Operate four wheel drive vehicle on unsealed roads
- Monitor pen condition and ration suitability
- Use hand held e-business tools
- Service and repair bores and windmills
- Operate chemical application machinery and equipment
- Calculate mass, area and quantify dimensions
- Implement a horse health program
- Implement a post-harvest program
- Apply knowledge of horse behaviour
- Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases
- Establish horticultural crops
- Operate compost processing plant, machinery and equipment
- Provide First Aid in remote or isolated site
- Design and produce business documents
- Apply biosecurity measures
- Operate broadacre and row crop harvest machinery and equipment
- Carry out post-shearing procedures
- Coordinate and monitor livestock transport
- Sample seed before and after processing
- Monitor the implementation of food safety and quality programs
- Operate precision control technology
- Operate tractors
- Perform tests for quality on seeds
- Demonstrate first attack firefighting equipment
- Apply situational awareness in remote pilot aircraft systems operations
- Identify and report signs of unusual disease or pest
- Conserve forage
- Keep production records for a primary production business
- Work effectively in a biosecurity emergency response
- Slaughter livestock
- Prepare livestock for competition
- Transport and store chemicals
- Identify and draft livestock
- Operate machinery and equipment
- Operate specialised machinery and equipment
- Implement pest management strategies
- Plan and construct conventional fencing
- Artificially inseminate livestock
- Apply fatigue management strategies
- Carry out basic hoof care procedures
- Process workplace documentation
- Operate two wheel motorbikes
- Monitor livestock production growing environments
- Identify seeds
- Prepare to receive grains and seeds
- Use business software applications
- Coordinate artificial insemination and fertility management of livestock
- Undertake agricultural crop harvesting activities
- Castrate livestock
- Read and interpret property maps and plans
- Handle horses safely
- Plan a plant establishment program
- Perform horse riding skills at walk, trot and canter
- Operate quad bikes
- Conduct aerial application operations using remote pilot aircraft systems
- Train, care for and ride horses for stock work
- Establish pastures and crops for livestock production
- Monitor animals in intensive production systems
- Operate a cane harvester
- Conduct civil construction skid steer loader operations
- Participate in a HACCP team
- Interpret road maps and navigate pre-determined routes
- Maintain and monitor animal health and wellbeing
- Conduct dropped ovary technique procedures for spaying cattle
- Coordinate horticultural crop harvesting
- Collect, store and administer colostrum
- Use hand and power tools
- Work in a team
- Access, extract and monitor water for irrigation
- Monitor weather conditions
- Operate a telehandler
- Euthanase livestock
- Maintain and monitor feed stocks
- Respond to emergencies
- Process customer complaints
- Coordinate work site activities
- Conduct manual fumigation of vertebrate and invertebrate pests
- Provide nutritional requirements for animals
- Coordinate and monitor production performance
- Control weeds
- Licence to drive a light rigid vehicle
- Plan to exhibit livestock
- Work effectively in industry
- Handle bulk materials in a storage area
- Collect samples for a rural production or horticulture monitoring program
- Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
- Implement a plant nutrition program
- Conduct grader operations
- Transport farm produce or bulk materials
- Implement a maintenance program for hydroponic systems
- Prepare livestock for shearing
- Maintain financial records
- Participate in workplace communications
- Install drainage systems
- Use application equipment to apply fumigant in confined spaces
- Prepare for and implement natural mating of livestock
- Operate tractors with attachments
- Operate in isolated and remote situations
- Licence to drive a medium rigid vehicle
- Administer medication to livestock
- Install hydroponic systems
- Treat planting seed
- Press wool for a clip
- Implement property improvement, construction and repair
- Operate side by side utility vehicles
- Perform advanced tests on seeds
- Perform horse riding skills at walk, trot and canter
- Provide routine care for horses
- Implement feeding plans for livestock
- Conduct site inspections
- Handle, package and store commercial quantities of seed
- Prepare combs and cutters for machine shearing
- Prepare animals for parturition
- Perform machinery maintenance
- Ride educated horses to carry out basic stock work
- Carry out movement and security procedures
- Carry out post-mortem examination of livestock
- Rear newborn and young livestock
- Maintain agricultural crops
- Operate mobile irrigation machinery and equipment
- Harvest horticultural crops mechanically
- Handle horses safely
- Install and terminate extra low voltage wiring systems
- Undertake preparation of land for agricultural crop production
- Care for weaner pigs
- Perform gas metal arc welding
- Enter and work in confined spaces
- Maintain livestock water supplies
- Test and grade grains and seeds on receival
- Licence to operate a forklift truck
- Work safely at heights
- Operate broadacre sowing machinery and equipment
- Implement procedures for calving
- Operate and maintain chainsaws
- Provide First Aid
- Prepare facilities for shearing and crutching
- Load and unload vehicles carrying special loads
- Care for and train working dogs
- Refuel machinery or vehicle
- Process and maintain workplace information
- Mix and mill standard stockfeed
- Ground spread fertiliser and soil ameliorant
- Operate pressurised irrigation systems
- Perform manual metal arc welding
- Sample soils and interpret results
- Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
- Comply with industry animal welfare requirements
- Remove and facilitate reuse of effluent and manure from an intensive production system
- Maintain and use hand tools
- Mate and monitor reproduction of alpacas
- Process planting seed
- Maintain a quarantine approved laboratory
- Identify plant specimens
- Carry out emergency disease or pest control procedures on infected premises
- Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair
- Apply poison baits for vertebrate pest control in rural and environmental landscapes
- Coordinate community projects
- Maintain pastures and crops for livestock production
- Perform shed duties
- Provide information on plants and their culture
- Implement feeding plans for intensive production
- Implement a crop regulation program
- Respond to wildfire
- Prepare a working sample
- Establish agricultural crops
- Prepare to work safely around horses
- Contribute to workplace health and safety processes
- Prevent injury
- Care for health and welfare of pigs
- Provide on-job training support
- Engage in workplace communication
- Conduct front-end loader operations
- Operate multi-rotor remote pilot aircraft systems
- Conduct telescopic materials handler operations
- Control remote pilot aircraft systems on the ground
- Plan and navigate routes
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Entry | Mid year intake | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Rowan (Rural Science) | Domestic: $14,552 | No |
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