ABOUT THE COURSE
Start your journey with our specialised Certificate in Beef and Dairy Farming
Course Highlights
This popular course offers an engaging and detailed exploration of beef cattle management, breeding, and production. Perfect for both industry veterans and newcomers, it provides a thorough overview of critical topics, ensuring you gain the expertise needed to excel in the beef industry. With in-depth coverage of nutrition, production, reproduction, and disease management, you'll be well-equipped to handle all aspects of beef cattle care.
Course Aim
Our aim is to equip you with the foundational knowledge to either kickstart your own beef cattle enterprise or enhance the theoretical understanding of existing producers. This course empowers you to make informed decisions about beef cattle management, ensuring optimal health and productivity of your herd.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Understand and explain the principles and practices of beef cattle husbandry and management.
- Make informed decisions about the nutritional needs, breeding strategies, and overall health management of beef cattle.
- Recognise, control, and treat common cattle diseases, ensuring the wellbeing of your herd.
- Apply best practices in production and reproduction to maximise efficiency and profitability in your beef cattle operation.
STUDY DURATION:
The course is self-paced, meaning students have no due dates or deadline, study when they have time to study and more importantly when they are motivated to study. The certificate will take 200 hours to complete from start to finish. Majority of students graduate within 12 months.
The certificate in beef and dairy farming is delivered completely online. Its units are made up of reading, videos and step-by-step tutorials catering to everyone’s learning ability and keeping students fully engaged throughout their studies.
Students can enrol at any time. Enrolment is done over the phone for legal and compliance purposes, it’s very quick and easy then students have access to their course the very next day!
STUDY METHOD：
100% Online
START DATE:
Intake is open now.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Have the confidence to work with both beef and dairy cattle in a range of roles, including:
- Farm Hand
- Farm Manager
- Relief or Full-time Milker
- Livestock Breeding and Raising
CORE MODULES
1. Introduction to beef cattle and beef cattle breeds
2. Beef Cattle Production Systems
3. Beef Cattle Breeding
4. Diseases in Beef Cattle - Viral and Bacterial
5. Parasitic and Other Diseases in Beef Cattle
6. Nutrition in Beef Cattle
7. Commercial Herd Management
8. Feedlot Management
9. Stud Herd Management
10. Management, Economics and Marketing
With in depth lessons per module to help you become a recognised specialist in Beef and Dairy Farming.
ABOUT US
Courses4me
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Our founders have a combined 30 years of expertise in education and training and have joined forces to deliver high-quality, low-cost education to anyone wishing to advance their career.
IS COURSES4ME ACCREDITED?
Yes. All of our courses are endorsed by the IARC (www.iarcedu.com) and accredited by ICOES (www.icoes.org). ICOES has an independent board of management that ensures that the Foundation operates in accordance with its purpose. It has an Advisory Board consisting of independent professors who developed and implemented the Accreditation Standards, a quality charter that is used for the annual review of prospective and existing accredited course providers.
