Course Covers:
- Tractors and ploughs
- Trailers and cultivators
- Planters and drills
- Sprayers
- Hay and silage equipment
- Harvesting and barn machinery
- Dairy machinery
- Pumps and boreholes
Course Outcomes:
Outcome 1: Tractors and Trailers
Understand the power rating of tractors, types of tractors, and different types of trailers.
Outcome 2: Ploughs and Ploughing Techniques
Understand different types of ploughs and ploughing techniques, including marking out, finishing, headland ploughing, round and round ploughing, one-way ploughing, and minimum tillage.
Outcome 3: Cultivating Machinery
Identify cultivating machinery such as disc harrows, cultivators, rollers, ridgers, and levellers.
Outcome 4: Seed Drills and Planters
Identify and understand different seed drills and planters.
Outcome 5: Fertiliser Distributors and Crop Sprayers
Manage fertiliser distributors, crop sprayers, and silage machinery.
Outcome 6: Hay Making Machinery
Manage hay making machinery such as mowers, conditioning machines, and balers, and handle bales effectively.
Outcome 7: Harvesting Machinery
Identify and understand harvesting machinery, including combine harvesters and other harvesting equipment.
Outcome 8: Barn Machinery
Understand and implement the use and care of barn machinery, and manage tractor outputs.
Outcome 9: Dairy Machinery
Understand different milking machines, including bucket plants, pipeline milking, and milking parlours.