Online Dairy Training

NEW: Milk Quality Training – Online & On-farm

Online training for full time roles

Whether it’s full-time or for seasonal workloads, like calving, use our online courses to set new team members up for success.

All our courses are designed to give new staff members the best possible start before they step onto the farm. In less than a week a new team member can understand the tasks they will be required to do in each role. As a farmer you can save time getting them up to speed on the basics and focusing on how you do things operationally on farm.

For farmers with Filipino workers you can use the Tagalog closed captions in the dairy assistant course.

Milk Quality Training – Online & On-farm

Enhance your team’s skills and improve productivity and retention for farmers with our Milk quality training – Online & On-farm 

It’s designed for new employees and as a refresher for the existing team, delivered in just weeks for $395 plus GST per person. Minimum booking three people.

Participants can complete the online module in three hours before attending the in-shed course, which is conducted on-site by a certified Agricademy trainer. 

Before the on-farm training, our trainer will connect with you to discuss specific areas of focus. Agricademy will also provide weekly updates to management regarding online course completion ahead of the training day.

Upon finishing both the online and on-farm courses, each employee will receive a certificate of completion. These certificates can be downloaded and stored in your farm management system. The online course will remain accessible afterward for ongoing reference by each employee.

To make this work efficiently you’ll need a minimum of three people.

To find out more about the online part of the training…

If you’d like to improve your milk quality, or find out more, please complete and send the form below.

We’ll answer your questions, work with you for payment, get your people setup online, and schedule the on-farm training.

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Bite sized learning

For team members who need a quick course to fill in the gaps we have byte sized learning using short sharp videos explaining the how and why for key farm tasks.  

For new employees the workwise course explains nutrition and what to expect when they first start earning, including tax and pay slips. 

Dive into Dairy – an Introduction

Don’t know much about working on a dairy farm? Check out the taster videos in Discover Dairy and explore animal health and wellbeing, along with learning about some of the tasks that take place on the farm.

Discover Dairy gives you access to a suite of videos, pdfs and quizzes. Videos can be watched at any time and from anywhere.

Discover Dairy Contains

  • role of the relief milker
  • cow behaviour and how to keep the cows happy
  • the basic terminology used in the milking shed
  • mustering
  • stock-handling skills
  • flight zones
  • paddock warrant of fitness
  • setting up the shed
  • loading the rotary shed
  • milking a cow
  • being observant
  • cleaning the shed
  • the importance of nutrition for you!
  • understand your payslip

Check out this short video (of course!) …

…on how to purchase and watch our video training. Find out about payment options, purchasing for staff and how to watch the content and do the quizzes.

Clarence Stolte is a farmer in Wairarapa and explains why he likes Get Milking video training

Why choose Agricademy training? In this short video we chat with Clarence Stolte in Carterton, Wairarapa about his thoughts on our training model. Clarence is a 50:50 sharemilker, a farm owner and supervises a few other farms. Clarence has been dairy farming for 17 years and loves the mix of hands on, outdoors, technical and technology skills we get to use every day in dairy farming – and would love to see more enthusiastic, new entrants into the dairy industry.

“There is a huge benefit in being able to offer early training that doesn’t require lots of reading. I struggle to read pages of information, but these short videos explain more than a thousand words!”

On Farm follow up

Completing video training is the first step to building skills in dairy. If you want to put those skills into practice with on farm follow up, talk with one of our partners around the country. On farm training is priced flexibly in two hour blocks (see, still no classrooms or weeks away from work!) and arranged at a time to suit you and the boss.

Tyree Connor
Tyree Connor, Training Centric
Waikato
Du Plessis Agriteachme
Hannes & Lyzanne du Plessis,
Agriteachme, Southland
Jackie and Nestor Eligado
Nestor & Jackie Eligado, Stream Farm Enterprises, Taranaki
Angela Strawbridge, Ange’s AgriBusiness, Manawatu 

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