SPECIFIC OUTCOMES COVERED IN THIS LEARNER GUIDE:

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 1

Understand the importance of power rating of tractors, types of tractors, and different types of trailers used.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 2

Understand the different types of ploughs and ploughing, which includes marking out, finishing, ploughing the headland, round and round ploughing, one-way ploughing, and minimum tillage.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 3

Learn and identify cultivating machinery such as disc harrows, cultivators, rollers, ridgers, and levellers.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 4

Understand and be able to identify different seed drills and planters.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 5

Manage fertiliser distributors, crop sprayers, and silage machinery.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 6

Manage hay making machinery such as mowers, conditioning machines, and balers, and be able to handle bales.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 7

Identify and understand harvesting machinery such as combine harvesters and other harvesting machinery.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 8

Understand and implement the use of barn machinery, care of machinery, and tractor outputs.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 9

Understand different milking machines such as the bucket plant, pipeline milking, and milking parlours.