The Stock Feed and Animal Nutrition Feeding and Nutrition of Livestock course is offered as a series of weekend workshops at NMIT's farm.
The topics covered in this course include:
- introduction to subject and assessment methods;
- cattle nutrition;
- nutritional value of feed stuffs;
- pasture benchmarks;
- condition scoring;
- pasture assessment;
- supplementary feeding;
- costing feeds;
- assess cattle and pasture in paddock;
- feeding grain;
- drought feeding;
- nutrient levels of feed assessed;
- assess cattle and pasture in paddock;
- pasture management and grazing strategies;
- feed problem and abnormal conditions;
- assess cattle and
- pasture in paddock and fodder conservation.
Students should download the application form from NMIT's website, complete and email or post the form to NMIT.
The Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) offers a range of innovative, practical Vocational Education Training and Higher Education programmes.
The NMIT courses are designed and developed with industry participation to give the student the best employment outcome. Based across the northern region of Melbourne, NMIT has six metropolitan campuses, Preston, Collingwood, Epping, Fairfield, Greensborough and Heidelberg and a rural campus in Ararat.