Farm Management Consultant
Advise farmers, agricultural businesses, rural industries and government on all aspects of farming including production and farm business.
Alternative Titles
- Agricultural Adviser
- Agricultural Consultant
- Whole Farm Planner
Tasks
- Collect and analyse data on factors affecting production
- Advise farmers and farm managers on techniques for improving the production of crops and livestock, and alternative agricultural options
- Advise farmers on issues such as livestock and crop disease, control of pests and weeds, soil improvement, animal husbandry and feeding programs
- Study environmental factors affecting commercial crop production, pasture growth and animal breeding
- Investigate, plan and implement management procedures to cope with the effects of fires, floods, droughts, soil erosion, insect pests and diseases
Personal Requirements
- problem solving skills
- observational skills
- like science and plants
- communication skills
- organisational skills
- work independently and as part of a team
- research skills
For this Position, the skills required could have been developed through on the job training, previous work experience in other related roles and through specialised and/or vocation training and/or through a Tertiary Qualification in Science, Humanities or Commerce.
Specialist vocational training and further education are available through the following institutions;
Marcus Oldham Farm Management College
Tertiary Education Providers
Australian Capital Territory
- Australian Catholic University
- Australian National University
- Charles Sturt University
- University of Canberra
- University of New South Wales
New South Wales
- Australian Catholic University
- Charles Darwin University
- Charles Sturt University
- CQ University
- La Trobe University
- Macquarie University
- Southern Cross University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Torrens University
- University of New England
- University of New South Wales
- University of Newcastle
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Sydney
- University of Tasmania
- University of Technology Sydney
- University of Wollongong
- Victoria University
- Western Sydney University
Northern Territory
Queensland
- Australian Catholic University
- Bond University
- CQ University
- Griffith University
- James Cook University
- Queensland University of Technology
- Southern Cross University
- Torrens University
- University of Queensland
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Victoria University
South Australia
- CQ University
- Flinders University
- Torrens University
- University of Adelaide
- University of South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
- Australian Catholic University
- CQ University
- Deakin University
- Federation University
- La Trobe University
- Monash University
- RMIT University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Torrens University
- University of Adelaide
- University of Melbourne
- Victoria University
Western Australia