Skills Farm Produce Grading Service Contractor near Charlottetown (PE)
National Occupational Classification update
We have updated this page to reflect the transition to the 2021 version of the National Occupational Classification (NOC). This means that the occupation "farm produce grading service contractor" was moved from the group Agricultural service contractors, farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers (NOC 8252) to the group Agricultural service contractors and farm supervisors (NOC 82030).
Find out what skills you typically need to work as a farm produce grading service contractor in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Agricultural service contractors, farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers (NOC 82030).
Tasks
- Boar semen collection
- Brush collecting
- Budding trees
- Calving
- Cattle exhibition
- Cattle training
- Clipping
- Deleafing
- Farm animal grooming
- Feed inventory
- Fruit trees training
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Handling animals
- Harvesting seedlings
- Hoeing crops
- Livestock branding
- Lowering
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- Milking goats
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Permaculture
- Processing pig litters
- Reining
- Seed cutting
- Shearing with knife
- Shoot positioning
- Show horse preparation
- Soil fertility programs
- Stone and/or wood picking
- Suckering
- Tying
- Vegetable culling
- Vertical farming system
- Weaning
- Weeding
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Maintain financial and production records
- Negotiate with clients for provision of services
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
- Develop work schedules and establish procedures
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Select livestock for sale
- Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
- Train horses
- Maintain work records and logs
- Hire and train staff
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm duties
Skills and knowledge
The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.
- Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles Help -
- Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment
- Operating Mobile Equipment
- Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing
- Communication Help -
- Interviewing
- Promoting and Selling
- Advising and Consulting
- Professional Communicating
- Teaching and Training
- Liaising and Networking
- Negotiating and Adjudicating
- Information Handling Help -
- Processing Information
- Managing Information
- Analysis Help -
- Inspecting and Testing
- Analyzing Information
- Examining and Diagnosing
- Planning
- Researching and Investigating
- Projecting Outcomes
- Management Help -
- Supervising
- Recruiting and Hiring
- Co-ordinating and Organizing
- Evaluating
- Allocating and Controlling Resources
- Leading and Motivating
- Strategic Planning
Skills
- Manufacturing and Production Help -
- Food Production and Agriculture
- Processing and Production
- Law and Public Safety Help -
- Public Safety and Security
- Law, Government, and Jurisprudence
- Business, Finance and Management Help -
- Client Service
- Marketing
- Sales
- Clerical
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Accounting
- Economics
- Finance
- Business Administration
- Business Management
Knowledge
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