Skills Farm Produce Grading Service Contractor near Vancouver (BC)

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 Checklist

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Skills

Analysis Help - Analysis
  • Analyzing Information
  • Inspecting and Testing

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

Analyzing Information
Examining data or facts to determine appropriate actions or recommendations.
Inspecting and Testing
Examining and investigating problems, sites or objects to ensure compliance with safety standards, laws or regulations.

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles Help - Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles
  • Operating Mobile Equipment
  • Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

Working with and/or repairing vehicles, machinery or stationary equipment.

Operating Mobile Equipment
Controlling the operation of machinery, equipment or vehicles.
Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment
Operating and monitoring various types of mechanically-controlled or computer-controlled industrial machinery, equipment or systems.
Management Help - Management
  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Supervising

Management

Taking charge of the direction and resources of an organization.

Recruiting and Hiring
Acquiring the right talent to achieve the organization's mission.
Supervising
Directing and monitoring the performance of others.
Communication Help - Communication
  • Negotiating and Adjudicating
  • Liaising and Networking
  • Advising and Consulting

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

Negotiating and Adjudicating
Exchanging ideas while analyzing issues and interests at stake, and enabling opposing sides to resolve disputes and reach agreement.
Liaising and Networking
Developing alliances, contacts or partnerships, and exchanging information with others.
Advising and Consulting
Providing guidance and advice to enable decision-making about tasks, situations, and processes.
Information Handling Help - Information Handling
  • Processing Information

Information Handling

Creating and using systems for the storage and retrieval of knowledge and data.

Processing Information
Inputting, recording, transcribing and updating data using electronic or manual information systems.

Handling Goods and Materials

Working with goods and materials manually or with machines.

Creative Expression

Using various materials and formats to create work that is intended to be artistically satisfying, entertaining, instructive or functional.

Building

Working with materials to construct, renovate and maintain structures.

Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery

Working with technical equipment, instruments, machinery and other systems.

Knowledge

Social Sciences and Arts

Knowledge related to culture, origins and patterns of human activity, and the development and expression of thought.

Mathematics and Science

Knowledge related to specialized areas of research such as measurement, living organisms, physical substances, and properties and relationships of quantity, space, and matter.

Manufacturing and Production Help - Manufacturing and Production
  • Food Production and Agriculture

Manufacturing and Production

Knowledge related to the delivery of a series of operations in large-scale production or processing of goods or crops, according to safety and quality standards.

Food Production and Agriculture
Knowledge of techniques and equipment for raising, planting, growing, harvesting and storage of animal and plant food products and the techniques, materials and equipment for their preparation and preservation.
Law and Public Safety Help - Law and Public Safety
  • Public Safety and Security

Law and Public Safety

Knowledge related to the provision and enforcement of laws and regulations that safeguard the effective functioning of a democratic society.

Public Safety and Security
Knowledge of public safety and security operations and systems, of policy, regulations and procedures for the protection of people, data and property.
Business, Finance and Management Help - Business, Finance and Management
  • Business Administration
  • Client Service

Business, Finance and Management

Knowledge related to organization and control of business activities.

Business Administration
Knowledge of the principles and practices of managing businesses.
Client Service
Knowledge of principles and practices of providing service to clients to maintain and build organizational success.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge related to the design, building, use or repair of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures.

Education and Training

Knowledge related to the theory and practice of teaching, and the methods used in the design, delivery and evaluation of the provision of knowledge or information.

Communications and Transportation

Knowledge related to the provision and transmission of systems of communication and entertainment and the delivery of consumer goods or services.

Health Services

Knowledge related to the provision of medical science and technology for the physical and mental well-being of others.

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