Certificate III in Agriculture

Contribute to workplace health and safety processes

Apply environmentally sustainable work practices

Handle horses safely

Apply knowledge of horse behaviour

Perform horse riding skills at walk, trot and canter

Handle horses safely

Prepare to work safely around horses

Load and unload horses

Perform horse riding skills at walk, trot and canter

Implement a horse health program

Provide routine care for horses

Carry out basic hoof care procedures

Maintain and monitor animal health and wellbeing

Provide nutritional requirements for animals

Keep production records for a primary production business

Artificially inseminate livestock

Undertake preparation of land for agricultural crop production

Maintain pastures and crops for livestock production

Conserve forage

Test and grade grains and seeds on receival

Establish pastures and crops for livestock production

Prepare to receive grains and seeds

Establish agricultural crops

Maintain agricultural crops

Undertake agricultural crop harvesting activities

Maintain pastures and crops for livestock production

Work effectively in a biosecurity emergency response

Carry out emergency disease or pest control procedures on infected premises

Carry out movement and security procedures

Identify and report signs of unusual disease or pest

Apply biosecurity measures

Use hand held e-business tools

Use portable technology in the workplace

Transport and store chemicals

Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases

Use application equipment to apply fumigant in confined spaces

Fumigate soil

Conduct manual fumigation of vertebrate and invertebrate pests

Operate compost processing plant, machinery and equipment

Install drainage systems

Implement a maintenance program for hydroponic systems

Install hydroponic systems

Implement a maintenance program for hydroponic systems

Install hydroponic systems

Implement property improvement, construction and repair

Plan and construct an electric fence

Plan and construct conventional fencing

Install and terminate extra low voltage wiring systems

Operate and maintain gravity fed irrigation systems

Troubleshoot irrigation systems

Operate pressurised irrigation systems

Ride educated horses to carry out basic stock work

Ride educated horses to carry out basic stock work

Handle horses safely for stock work

Brand livestock

Administer medication to livestock

Carry out feedlot operations

Carry out post-mortem examination of livestock

Maintain livestock water supplies

Coordinate and monitor production performance

Euthanase livestock

Identify and draft livestock

Implement animal health control programs

Implement feeding plans for intensive production

Implement feeding plans for livestock

Monitor livestock production growing environments

Prepare livestock for competition

Plan to exhibit livestock

Rear newborn and young livestock

Slaughter livestock

Coordinate and monitor livestock transport

Service and repair bores and windmills

Transport farm produce or bulk materials

Maintain and monitor feed stocks

Care for and train working dogs

Castrate livestock

Mix and mill standard stockfeed

Collect, store and administer colostrum

Remove and facilitate reuse of effluent and manure from an intensive production system

Implement procedures for calving

Comply with industry animal welfare requirements

Monitor animals in intensive production systems

Monitor pen condition and ration suitability

Plan, prepare and conduct mulesing procedures

Train, care for and ride horses for stock work

Conduct dropped ovary technique procedures for spaying cattle

Mate and monitor reproduction of alpacas

Coordinate artificial insemination and fertility management of livestock

Prepare animals for parturition

Prepare for and implement natural mating of livestock

Administer treatments to livestock

Carry out feedlot operations

Carry out post-mortem examination of livestock

Maintain livestock water supplies

Coordinate and monitor production performance

Euthanase livestock

Identify and draft livestock

Implement animal health control programs

Implement feeding plans for intensive livestock production

Implement feeding plans for livestock

Monitor livestock production growing environments

Prepare and present livestock for competition

Exhibit livestock

Rear newborn and young livestock

Slaughter livestock

Coordinate and monitor livestock transport

Service and repair bores and windmills

Transport farm produce or bulk materials

Maintain and monitor feed stocks

Care for and train working dogs

Castrate livestock

Mix and mill standard stockfeed

Collect, store and administer colostrum

Remove and facilitate reuse of effluent and manure from an intensive production system

Comply with industry animal welfare requirements

Monitor animals in intensive production systems

Monitor pen condition and ration suitability

Plan, prepare and conduct mulesing procedures

Train, care for and ride horses for stock work

Carry out post-shearing procedures

Operate two wheel motorbikes

Operate tractors

Conduct grader operations

Conduct front-end loader operations

Operate and maintain chainsaws

Operate side by side utility vehicles

Operate quad bikes

Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair

Perform machinery maintenance

Operate a telehandler

Operate machinery and equipment

Operate specialised machinery and equipment

Ground spread fertiliser and soil ameliorant

Operate a cane harvester

Operate broadacre and row crop harvest machinery and equipment

Operate broadacre sowing machinery and equipment

Operate land-forming machinery and equipment

Operate precision control technology

Operate row crop planting and seeding machinery and equipment

Operate mobile irrigation machinery and equipment

Transport machinery

Operate chemical application machinery and equipment

Refuel machinery or vehicle

Operate tractors with attachments

Identify plant specimens

Implement a plant nutrition program

Provide information on plants and their culture

Coordinate community projects

Read and interpret property maps and plans

Plan a plant establishment program

Implement a crop regulation program

Implement a post-harvest program

Harvest horticultural crops mechanically

Establish horticultural crops

Coordinate horticultural crop harvesting

Control weeds

Control plant pests, diseases and disorders

Implement pest management strategies

Apply poison baits for vertebrate pest control in rural and environmental landscapes

Care for health and welfare of pigs

Care for weaner pigs

Perform tests for quality on seeds

Prepare a working sample

Identify seeds

Perform advanced tests on seeds

Handle and store seed subject to quarantine regulations

Maintain a quarantine approved laboratory

Prepare livestock for shearing

Prepare combs and cutters for machine shearing

Carry out post-shearing procedures

Prepare livestock for shearing

Prepare combs and cutters for machine shearing

Sample soils and interpret results

Process planting seed

Treat planting seed

Handle, package and store commercial quantities of seed

Sample seed before and after processing

Access, extract and monitor water for irrigation

Prepare fleece wool for classing

Prepare facilities for shearing and crutching

Prepare wool based on its characteristics for classing

Press wool for a clip

Perform shed duties

Prepare facilities for shearing and crutching

Press wool for a clip

Perform shed duties

Work effectively in industry

Participate in workplace communications

Collect samples for a rural production or horticulture monitoring program

Monitor weather conditions

Respond to emergencies

Coordinate work site activities

Comply with industry quality assurance requirements

Handle bulk materials in a storage area

Provide on-job training support

Conduct site inspections

Operate in isolated and remote situations

Perform manual metal arc welding

Perform gas metal arc welding

Conduct aerial application operations using remote pilot aircraft systems

Operate multi-rotor remote pilot aircraft systems

Control remote pilot aircraft systems on the ground

Apply situational awareness in remote pilot aircraft systems operations

Maintain financial records

Process and maintain workplace information

Process customer complaints

Use business software applications

Use digital technologies to communicate in a work environment

Design and produce business documents

Engage in workplace communication

Demonstrate first attack firefighting equipment

Participate in a HACCP team

Monitor the implementation of food safety and quality programs

Operate four wheel drive vehicle on unsealed roads

Perform complex four wheel drive operations

Provide First Aid

Provide First Aid in remote or isolated site

Respond to wildfire

Prevent injury

Work in a team

Conduct telescopic materials handler operations

Conduct civil construction skid steer loader operations

Conduct backhoe/loader operations

Use hand and power tools

Cut, weld and bend materials

Enter and work in confined spaces

Work safely at heights

Maintain and use hand tools

Load and unload vehicles carrying special loads

Care for livestock in transit

Operate a boom type elevating work platform

Process workplace documentation

Calculate mass, area and quantify dimensions

Prepare workplace documents

Apply fatigue management strategies

Interpret road maps and navigate pre-determined routes

Plan and navigate routes

Licence to operate a forklift truck

Licence to drive a light rigid vehicle

Licence to drive a medium rigid vehicle

Licence to drive a heavy rigid vehicle