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PROfarm

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.

Prices quoted are current for 2009.
  • All-terrain vehicle (ATV) handling
  • Alpaca care and management
  • Animal health risk management - Introduction
  • Beef care and handling
  • Beef-N-Omics
  • Beekeeping as a business
  • Beginning in Bees
  • Better bull buying
  • Biological control of weeds
  • Blackberry identification
  • Brushcutter operation
  • Calculating cost of production for your beef enterprise
  • Centre pivot and lateral move irrigation systems
  • Chainsaw - Fall trees manually - (basic)
  • Chainsaw - Trim & cross-cut felled trees
  • Chainsaw operation and maintenance
  • Conservation farming
  • Coordinate and facilitate distance-based learning
  • Dairy people focus groups - one day course
  • Dairy people focus groups - three day course
  • Design learning programs
  • Dohne ram breeding and selection
  • Drought recovery strategies
  • Electric fencing
  • Facilitate group-based learning
  • Facilitate learning
  • Faecal egg counts for worms
  • Farm planning
  • Farm water supply and climate risk
  • Farmer's guide to managing climate risk
  • Farming in a changing climate
  • Feeding the milk business
  • Fencing conventional
  • Forklift licence preparation
  • Getting started with environmental management in viticulture
  • Goat care and management
  • Healthy soils and healthy landscape
  • Heavy horse care and handling
  • Horse care and handling
  • Identification and management of native grass pastures for agriculture and conservation
  • International Seed Testing Association seed sampling procedures
  • Introduction to environmental management systems (EMS)
  • Introduction to irrigation pump performance
  • Introduction to organic farming
  • Introduction to pastures
  • Irrigated lucerne for profit
  • Lamb assessment and marketing
  • LANDSCAN®
  • Management of trunk disease and young vine decline
  • Managing land capability, soil erosion and ground cover
  • Managing pastures for profit
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement (MERI) workshop
  • Native plant and weed look-alikes
  • Navigating with your hand held GPS receiver
  • Off-road four wheel drive (4x4) training
  • OHS for livestock handlers
  • Paddock plants - field day
  • People in dairy Focus Groups - Improving people productivity on a dairy farm
  • Pest and disease in honey bees - PROfarm course
  • Planning for pest management
  • Pole saw operation
  • Post and rail fencing
  • Poultry care for the home flock
  • Procrop - Barley growth and development
  • Procrop - Canola growth and development
  • Procrop - Lupin growth and development
  • Procrop - Maize growth and development
  • Prograze abridged
  • Prograze Plus
  • Prograze®
  • Property management planning (PMP) for natural resource management - PROfarm course
  • Property-to-property transfer - National Livestock Identification System (NLIS)
  • Provide assessment services
  • Provide training through instruction and demonstration of work skills
  • Queen bee breeding
  • Recognising water weeds
  • Rice for profit
  • Rural office - maintain business records
  • Rural office - setting up a records system
  • Safe tractor operation and maintenance
  • Secure loads
  • Service and maintain small powered machines
  • Shaping our futures together (SOFT)
  • Sheep care and husbandry
  • Skills assessment
  • 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
  • Soils and fertilisers
  • Stock Assess
  • Stock Safe - safe responsible livestock handling
  • StockPlan® 3 day
  • Tactical grazing management for semi-arid rangelands
  • Targets for change - grazing and cropping areas
  • Topfodder silage
  • Traditional bush timber construction
  • Training and assessment, Certificate IV
  • Vertebrate pest management
  • Waterwatch for land managers
  • WaterWise on the farm
  • Wean more lambs
  • Weeds and their control
  • What does your garden grow?
  • Wine grape quality management
  • Wood chipper operation
  • Work within the Vocational Education & Training (VET) system - PROfarm course
  • Working dogs
  • Working with People in Dairy: Professional development in human resource management for dairy advisors
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    Upcoming course dates

    25/09/2009
    Property Management Planning Course FARMREADY Approved
    23/11/2009
    Chainsaws - trim & cross-cut felled trees (course)
    24/11/2009
    SMARTtrain Chemical Application (Level 3) (course)
    24/11/2009
    Pole saw operation (course)
    26/11/2009
    SMARTtrain AQF4 Chemical Risk Management (Full course)
    30/11/2009
    SMARTtrain AQF3 Chemical Application - Initial (course)
    30/11/2009
    SMARTtrain AQF3 Chemical Application - Reaccreditation(course)
    01/12/2009
    SMARTtrain AQF3 Chemical Application (course)
    02/12/2009
    SMARTtrain AQF3 Chemical Application - Reaccreditation(course)
    02/12/2009
    SMARTtrain AQF4 Chemical Risk Management - Initial (Course)
    02/12/2009
    SMARTtrain AQF4 Chemical Risk Management - Reaccreditation
    04/12/2009
    Weeds and their controls (course)
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