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
Help - Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles
Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles
- Operating Mobile Equipment
- Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing
- Interviewing
- Teaching and Training
- Liaising and Networking
- Processing Information
- Managing Information
- Analyzing Information
- Examining and Diagnosing
- Planning
- Projecting Outcomes
- 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
- Biology
- Mechanics and Machinery
- Clerical
- Finance
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