Certificate III in Agriculture - AHC30116
Skills Base Australia Pty Ltd
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
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
- Apply biosecurity measures
- Perform routine manual metal arc welding
- Prepare animals for parturition
- Operate quad bikes
- Mate and monitor reproduction of alpacas
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Entry | Mid year intake | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warrnambool | No | |||
| Warrnambool | No |
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