PROfarm
PROfarm is the training program developed by NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) to meet the needs of farmers, primary industries, agribusiness and the community.
Courses are delivered locally by highly skilled and respected NSW DPI staff. Many of the courses are subsidised to reflect the public benefits provided by the adoption of more sustainable farming practices. More about PROfarm
See below for the list of courses, or contact us to have a brochure mailed to you.
Agricultural resource management
- Conservation farming
- Environmental management systems (EMS) in agriculture - External course
- Farm planning
- Farmer's guide to managing climate risk
- Farming for climate change
- Healthy soils and healthy landscape
- International Seed Testing Association seed sampling procedures
- Introduction to environmental management systems (EMS)
- Introduction to irrigation pump performance
- Introduction to organic farming
- Introduction to property planning
- LANDSCAN®
- Native plant and weed look-alikes
- Property management planning (PMP) for natural resource management
- Recognising water weeds
- Soil analysis and fertiliser management for the North West
- Soils and fertilisers
- Vertebrate pest management
- WaterWise on the farm (previously 'Introduction to irrigation management')
- Weeds and their control
Communication and personal development
Dairy
- Feeding the milk business
- Managing pastures for profit
- Working with People in Dairy: Professional development in human resource management for dairy advisors
Farm skills
- All-terrain vehicle (ATV) handling
- Bore and windmill service and repair for farmers
- Chainsaw - Fall trees manually - non-production
- Chainsaw - Trim & cross-cut felled trees (Level II chainsaw operation)
- Chainsaw operation and maintenance
- Fencing conventional
- Forklift licence preparation
- Off-road four wheel drive (4x4) training
- Post and rail fencing
- Safe tractor operation and maintenance
- Secure loads
- Service and maintain small powered machines
- Traditional bush timber construction
- What does your garden grow?
- Wood chipper operation
Horticulture and viticulture
- Getting started with environmental management in viticulture - Research to Practice®
- Grapevine nutrition - Research to Practice®
- Integrated pest management (IPM) in viticulture - Research to Practice®
- Water management for grapevines - Research to Practice®
- Wine grape quality management - Research to Practice®
Livestock
- Alpaca care and management
- Animal health risk management - introduction
- Beef care and handling
- Beef-N-Omics
- Beekeeping
- Beekeeping as a business
- Better bull buying
- Calculating cost of production for your beef enterprise
- Dohne ram breeding and selection
- Faecal egg counts for worms
- Goat care and management
- Heavy horse care and handling
- Horse care and handling
- Lamb assessment and marketing
- OHS for livestock handlers
- Poultry care for the home flock
- Property-to-property transfer - National Livestock Identification System (NLIS)
- Queen bee breeding
- Sheep care and husbandry
- Stock AssessTM
- Stock Safe - safe responsible livestock handling
- StockPlan® 3 days
- Wean more lambs
Monitoring and evaluation
Pastures, cropping and fodder production
- Blackberry identification
- Identification and management of native grass pastures for agriculture and conservation
- Introduction to pastures (previously 'Planting improved pastures')
- Irrigated lucerne for profit
- Paddock plants - field day
- Prograze abridged
- Prograze Plus
- Prograze®
- Rice for profit
- Tactical grazing management for semi-arid rangelands
- Targets for change - grazing and cropping areas
- TopfodderTM silage
Rural business management
- Business structures, leases and sharefarming agreements
- Effective communication for business owners and managers
- Managing conflict at work
- Negotiation skills for farmers
- Promoting your small farming enterprise
- Realise your personal and professional potential: taking control
- Retirement, estate and succession planning for farmers
SMARTtrain® Chemical Accreditation program
- SMARTtrain® chemical application (Level 3)
- SMARTtrain® chemical risk management (Level 4)
- SMARTtrain® chemical safety (Level 2)
- SMARTtrain® fumigation on farms
- SMARTtrain® Level 3 reaccreditation
- SMARTtrain® Level 4 reaccreditation
- SMARTtrain® OHS risk management on farms (Level 4)
- SMARTtrain® safe use of hazardous substances (Level 2)
- SMARTtrain® weeds and their control
