Hands-on learning, Dalby campus
To support the Agricultural College’s industry-relevant training programs, the Dalby campus runs a number of commercial operations for students to gain practical, hands-on experience.
Campus farms
Cropping and agriculture
Animal husbandry and management
Farm engineering
Campus farms
These properties give students an opportunity to learn skills in an on-the-job environment. Be it cultivating, harvesting, mustering, or repairing equipment, students are engaged in all areas of the campus’s production businesses.
Cropping and agriculture
Depending on their area of specialisation, students undertake practical learning in broadacre grain production and handling, dryland crop production, fodder production and management. The campus has state-of-the-art agricultural machinery including technologies such as global positioning system and control traffic, spray-cam technology and minimum till cropping operations.
Animal husbandry and management
Students can participate in training in a range of areas including:
- beef cattle husbandry
- beef production at the campus’s Quality Assured Meat Standards Australia (MSA) accredited feedlot, slaughter house and butchery
- cattle preparation and showing at local agricultural shows
- stock horse husbandry at the stable complex
- other livestock operations such as a meat sheep operation and commercial piggery.
- visits to other college properties, such as Narayen, and local cooperative livestock enterprises
Farm engineering
The campus boasts one of the best agricultural engineering facilities in Australia. The fully equipped automotive workshop is set up to service and maintain a range of vehicle types including passenger vehicles, four wheel drives, tractors, trucks, buses and other equipment. This facility is further enhanced with the cooperative arrangement setup with the local TAFE campus.
This page was last updated 26 September 2006
