Production
AgSkilled
AgSkilled is a vocational training program for the cotton, grains, rice, production horticulture and viticulture industries, and as of March 2023 including livestock industries, funded by the NSW Government with industry partners. Register now for upcoming training!
Find out more about our short courses
Bees
Business Management
Farm Skills
Livestock
Machinery and Equipment
- Free Quad bike and Side-by-side vehicle training for eligible farmers, their workers and 16+ agricultural students
- Drones in agriculture
- Licence to operate a forklift
- Conduct telescopic materials handler operations
- Harvest operations
- Introduction to tractors for harvest operations
- Machinery hygiene
- Operate quad bikes
- Operate side by side utility vehicles
- Off-road four wheel drive
- Operate farm motor bikes
- Operate tractors
- Operate tractors with attachments
- Operate tractors with attachments and conduct front-end loader operations
- Service and maintain small powered machines
Safety
SMARTtrain Chemical Safety and Training
SMARTtrain® is a nationally recognised brand of chemical training materials available for purchase throughout Australia to use when training people in safe chemical use and application.
Weeds and pests
New courses
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Type: Online
Units: 3
Plan to Profit
Improve your financial literacy and the financial management of your farm business. Understand what is, and what is not, making money in your business. Improve your management of business risks. Answer those ‘what-if’ questions vital to your business into the future.
Type: Short course
Units: 2
Drones in agriculture
This course will teach you how to use drones to collect farm data to help make informed decisions such as refined fertiliser plans, sowing plans or monitoring water systems.
Skills Training Catalogue - January to March 2023
An 8-page PDF catalogue of our short courses and online courses. Don’t miss out! AgSkilled 2.0 funding ends 31 May 2023
Farm Safety Weeks
Tocal's Farm Safety Seeks are back! Find an upcoming location or contact us to request training in your town.
Operate side by sides
Safer than a quad bike, but still carrying its own risks, the side by side is becoming the “go to” vehicle for many jobs on the farm.
Online courses
Tocal Skills Training now has a suite of online courses that allow you to undertake study anywhere, any time.
Irrigation 101
Irrigation 101 is a series of online introductory learning modules about key concepts in the Australian irrigation sector. The modules aim to develop participants' understanding of how the irrigation industry ‘works’.
SMARTtrain Chemical Safety and Training
SMARTtrain® is a nationally recognised brand of chemical training materials available for purchase throughout Australia to use when training people in safe chemical use and application.
SafeWork NSW Quad bike safety improvement program
The NSW Quad Bike Safety Improvement Program was launched in July 2016 offering eligible farmers and their workers rebates in implementing safety measures around the use of quad bikes on farms.
Tocal is delivering training as part of this program. So far 1,696 farmers around NSW have taken part in this subsidised training, with even experienced operators saying it has made them change the way they use quad bikes.
The safety program includes the Operate quad bikes course and the Operate side-by-side utility vehicles course, which cover selecting a suitable vehicle for the job, safety checking and basic maintenance, operating it safely in a range of situations with different loads, and advanced riding techniques on slopes and rough terrain.
COVID-19 safety measures
New measures for COVID-19 safety have been introduced for training delivered through the adult education program.
Contact us
Paterson / Hunter Valley / Sydney / Southern Highlands
Phone: 02 4939 8881
Email: paterson.tocal@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Email: paterson.tocal@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Tamworth / Northern New South Wales
Phone: 02 6763 1276 or 02 6763 1285
Email: tamworth.tocal@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Email: tamworth.tocal@dpi.nsw.gov.au
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Yanco / Southern New South Wales
Phone: 1800 628 422
Email: yanco.tocalcollege@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Email: yanco.tocalcollege@dpi.nsw.gov.au
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