Skills Fertilization Service Contractor - Agriculture in Nunavut

Expertise

People working in this occupation usually apply the following skill set.

• Monitoring animal health
• Mixing fertilizer
• Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
• Lowering
• Harvesting seedlings
• Greenhouse cleaning
• Fruit trees training
• Deleafing
• Clipping
• Weeding
• Vertical farming system
• Budding trees
• Brush collecting
• Suckering
• Shoot positioning
• Seed cutting
• Tying
• Permaculture
• Soil fertility programs
• Negotiate with clients for provision of services
• Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
• Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
• Maintain financial and production records
• Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
• Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
• Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
• Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs
• Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
• Maintain quality control and production records
• Develop work schedules and establish procedures
• Milking goats
• Livestock branding
• Handling animals
• Feed inventory
• Farm animal grooming
• Weaning
• Cattle training
• Cattle exhibition
• Calving
• Boar semen collection
• Soybean farming
• Show horse preparation
• Shearing with knife
• Reining
• Processing pig litters
• Train horses
• Select livestock for sale
• Maintain livestock performance records
• Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
• Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs
• Formulate feeding program
• Hoeing crops
• Vegetable culling
• Stone and/or wood picking
• Knowledge of bee biology
• Honey farm
• Honey bees
• Harvesting honey
• Detection and treatment of bee diseases
• Wax stamping beehives
• Automated honey extractor
• Apiary work
• Apiary management

Skills and knowledge

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

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

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

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

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.

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

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

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

• 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.
• Negotiating and Adjudicating
  • Exchanging ideas while analyzing issues and interests at stake, and enabling opposing sides to resolve disputes and reach agreement.

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.

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.

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.

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.