LEARN TO MANAGE CROP PRODUCTION
This course is broad based, it extends your ability to make a profit
or gain employment more easily then if you specialised in one crop. The
management aspects allows you to understand the entire crop growing
process - from planting through to sales.
Many will use this course to become a farm manager, work in marketing horticultural crops or start your own business. Others will use it to enhance a career they have already started in the horticulture industry.
- Manage and market crop production.
- Broaden and deepen your knowledge of different crop options.
- Work on farm as a grower, or off farm in support of growers.
- 6 months full time or 1 to 3 years part time.
Free Student Membership is offered on enrolment to the Australian Institute of Horticulture.
Modules
Note that each module in the Advanced Certificate in Applied Management (Crops) is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.
INDUSTRY PROJECT OR WORK EXPERIENCE
This is the final requirement that you must satisfy before receiving your award.
There are various options including:
Alternative
If you work in the industry that you have been studying; you may submit a reference from your employer, in an effort to satisfy this industry (i.e. workplace project) requirement; on the basis of RPL (Recognition for Prior Learning), achieved through your current and past work experience.
The reference must indicate that you have skills and an awareness of your industry, which is sufficient for you to work in a position of responsibility.
Alternative
If you do not work in the relevant industry, you need to undertake a project as follows.
Procedure for a Workplace Project
This project is a major part of the course involving the number of hours relevant to the course (see above). Although the course does not contain mandatory work requirements, work experience is seen as highly desirable.
This project is based on applications in the work place and specifically aims to provide the student with the opportunity to apply and integrate skills and knowledge developed through various areas of formal study.
Students will design this project in consultation with a tutor to involve industry based activities in the area of specialized study which they select to follow in the course. The project outcomes may take the form of a written report, folio, visuals or a mixture of forms. Participants with relevant, current or past work experience will be given exemption from this project if they can provide suitable references from employers that show they have already fulfilled the requirements of this project.
For courses that involve more than 100 hours, more than one workplace project topic may be selected. For example, 200 hours may be split into two projects each of 100 hours. This will offer the student better scope to fulfill the needs of their course and to meet the number of hours required. Alternatively, the student may wish to do one large project with a duration of 200 hours.
Students will be assessed on how well they achieve the goals and outcomes they originally set as part of their negotiations with their tutor. During each 100 hours of the project, the students will present three short progress reports. These progress reports will be taken into account when evaluating the final submission. The tutor must be satisfied that the work submitted is original.
If the student wishes to do one large 200 hour report, then only three progressive reports will be needed (however the length of each report will be longer)
The Future
Farming has been evolving over recent decades, driven by technological, social, economic and environmental change.
- Technology is enabling us to do more things smarter than ever before. Automation is a big part of these changes.
- Environmental changes are causing a big rethink too; but there's a lot that a farmer can do to adapt.
- The economics of farming continues to impact what can be viable and where it might be viable.
Sustainability is increasingly important; and this course can help you to get your head around many of the sustainability issues confronting crop production.
As the world continues to change, watch world trends and adapt. Before that though, you need to get a broad, fundamental understanding of crop production; and that is precisely what this course should do.
WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS?
Graduates from this course have a foundation for managing a wide variety of crops on different types of farms.
Even if you don't study the specific
crop plant that you end up growing; the principles you learn and the
scientific and commercial understanding which you develop, will lay a
foundation that allows you to adapt to any type of job or any type of
crop you find yourself confronted with.
This course lays a very solid foundation for business or employment in any type of horticultural crop production.
For a farm to remain sustainable,
certain minimum productivity levels must be maintained, using preferred
plant species on an ongoing basis. These plants may be pasture species,
fodder crops, grain, vegetables, fruit or other harvested plants.
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