Specialisations
Crop Production
Perform annual tasks to grow a wide variety of crops such as grains, oilseeds, sugar cane, cotton, fruits, and vegetables.
Livestock Production
Manage the breeding and raising of a wide range of animals including beef and dairy cattle, sheep, pigs, horses and poultry.
Tasks
- Prepare or assist with preparation of annual forecasts, budgets and other business plans
- Recruit, supervise and ensure the ongoing training of farm staff
- Maintain production and other farm records including the estimated operating costs, ordering of farm inputs, marketing of produce and monitoring of animal health and feeding requirements
- Control costs of production in line with budget expectation
- Produce crops and/or livestock to achieve volume, quality and cost objectives
- Clean and maintain buildings, sheds, equipment and facilities to ensure health standards and high quality of produce
- Ensure safe and effective handling of equipment
- Undertake activities to minimise environmental degradation. Monitor environmental effects of farming activities and repair existing damage
- Plan and organise marketing and sale of produce to achieve high returns
Crop Production
- Select crop types and determine area to be sown
- Conduct a wide range of farming operations including cultivation, sowing, spraying and harvesting
Livestock Production
- Care and raise livestock for the production of meat, wool, milk and other animal products
- Ensure good animal health is maintained through provision of adequate quality and quantity of pasture and other feed
- Organise and conduct general farm activities including livestock control, pest management, shearing, milking and mating
Personal Requirements
- planning skills
- problem solving skills
- work independently
- computer skills
- like working outdoors
- communication skills
- mechanical skills
- enjoy working with animals
- management and organisation skills
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For this Position, the skills required could have been developed through on the job training, previous work experience in other related roles and through specialised and/or vocation training and/or through a Tertiary Qualification in Science, Humanities or Commerce.
Specialist vocational training and further education are available through the following institutions:
Marcus Oldham Farm Management College
Tertiary Education Providers
Australian Capital Territory
- Australian Catholic University
- Australian National University
- Charles Sturt University
- University of Canberra
- University of New South Wales
New South Wales
- Australian Catholic University
- Charles Darwin University
- Charles Sturt University
- CQ University
- La Trobe University
- Macquarie University
- Southern Cross University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Torrens University
- University of New England
- University of New South Wales
- University of Newcastle
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Sydney
- University of Tasmania
- University of Technology Sydney
- University of Wollongong
- Victoria University
- Western Sydney University
Northern Territory
Queensland
- Australian Catholic University
- Bond University
- CQ University
- Griffith University
- James Cook University
- Queensland University of Technology
- Southern Cross University
- Torrens University
- University of Queensland
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Victoria University
South Australia
- CQ University
- Flinders University
- Torrens University
- University of Adelaide
- University of South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
- Australian Catholic University
- CQ University
- Deakin University
- Federation University
- La Trobe University
- Monash University
- RMIT University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Torrens University
- University of Adelaide
- University of Melbourne
- Victoria University
Western Australia