Earning Criteria

• Work health and safety policy and procedure as relevant to a team leader or workplace supervisor using practical, real-world case studies. Students develop skills and techniques to oversee staff, provide effective feedback, communicate work roles, coordinate activities and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Condition score livestock, assess current and future pasture requirements for that mob, complete a feed budget and develop a feeding plan for the season, measure pasture and conduct feed tests.
• Establish a breeding program for herd / flock, including breeding objectives, determining time frames, wool production, meat quality and structural soundness. This also includes animal welfare issues and requirements for a successful breeding program.
• Goal setting, getting heifers in calf efficiently, managing pregnancy and achieving critical weights, transitioning heifers into a cow; preparing for calving and re-breeding, managing calving and analysing results.
• Analyse weaner performance, manage post-weaning performance, manage ewe lambs and hoggets during joining and early pregnancy, late pregnancy, lambing and weaning.
• The essential requirements for plant nutrition, how to monitor and evaluate plant growth and interpret soil test reports, determine relevant regional data and site characteristics and document soil health and plant nutrition.