To provide learning opportunities for those individuals who want: 

• A learning opportunity for people who wish to obtain knowledge of the milk harvesting industry that will consolidate, build on, and refine, the foundation knowledge they have already acquired.
• A learning opportunity that will enable a person to obtain an intermediate level of knowledge that will support personal job promotion and advancement within the dairy industry, providing theoretical knowledge appropriate to an assistant herd manager position.
• A learning opportunity that will enable study to occur at a time, pace and place that suits an employee working at an intermediate level in the milk harvesting industry.

Course Content:

Breeding methods and reproduction; yield and composition of milk; effluent management systems; pasture maximisation; livestock health and welfare; feeding requirements; irrigation; sustainable land management.