Skills Fur-bearing-animal Farmer near Longueuil (QC)

Find out what skills you typically need to work as a fur-bearing-animal farmer in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Managers in agriculture (NOC 80020).

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
  • Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
  • Manage overall operation of farm
  • Organize and co-ordinate planting, cultivating and crop harvesting activities; raising and breeding of livestock and poultry
  • Purchase machinery, livestock, seed, feed and other supplies
  • Determine the amount and kinds of crops to be grown and livestock to be raised
  • Establish marketing programs
  • Maintain financial and production records
  • Perform general farm duties
  • Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers

Skills and Knowledge Checklist

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

Skills

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles Help - Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles
  • Operating Mobile Equipment
  • Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing
Communication Help - Communication
  • Interviewing
  • Teaching and Training
  • Liaising and Networking
Information Handling Help - Information Handling
  • Processing Information
  • Managing Information
Analysis Help - Analysis
  • Analyzing Information
  • Examining and Diagnosing
  • Planning
  • Projecting Outcomes
Management Help - Management
  • Supervising
  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Co-ordinating and Organizing
  • Evaluating
  • Allocating and Controlling Resources
  • Leading and Motivating
  • Strategic Planning

Knowledge

Manufacturing and Production Help - Manufacturing and Production
  • Food Production and Agriculture
  • Processing and Production
Mathematics and Science Help - Mathematics and Science
  • Biology
Engineering and Technology Help - Engineering and Technology
  • Mechanics and Machinery
Business, Finance and Management Help - Business, Finance and Management
  • Clerical
  • Finance
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