NZQA registered unit standard
28923 version 1
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Title
Assist with feeding pastoral livestock to meet production targets
Level
3
Credits
8
Purpose
This unit standard is intended for people who are required to
assist with livestock feeding in a pastoral livestock system.
Classification
Agriculture > Farming Skills
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Examples of production targets include: lambing %, kg of milk solids per cow or per
hectare (kg MS/cow, Kg MS/ha), mating targets, meat/wool yields, weaning weights,
condition score.
2
Livestock grazing management is defined as actively managing grazing systems to
maximise both livestock and pasture performance. Examples may include: allocating
feed through supply and demand calculations, controlling feed demand, manipulating
supply, rotational grazing, set stocking, conserving pasture, feeding supplements,
moving livestock.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Assist with feeding pastoral livestock to meet production targets.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Assists with livestock grazing management.
1.2
Assists with accurately measuring pasture quantity using an accepted industry
method.
1.3
Assists with estimating pasture quality.
Range
pasture quality may include estimates of the ratio of: leaves per
tiller; leaf to stalk and/or seed head; grass to clover; weeds to
pasture.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
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Assists with feeding supplements as required to meet workplace production
targets.
Range
supplements may include grain, crops, bought in feed, and hay or
silage.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard 24631
Planned review date
31 December 2020
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
16 July 2015
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0052
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation standards@primaryito.ac.nz if
you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016