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The AgriFood Industry Skills Council is one of 11 Industry Skills Councils that provides accurate industry intelligence on current and future skill needs and training requirements. Agri-Food industries present great career opportunities that span food production through to animal breeding and management. The Agri-Food key areas are food, beverage, and pharmaceuticals, rural and related industries, meat processing, seafood and racing.

NFF launches Farm Facts 2011
Farm Facts is published each year as a compendium of useful and authoritative facts and figures about Australian agriculture, based on fully attributed data from independent sources.
Fancy getting paid to ride???
Can you believe the Australian racing industry that employs over 240,000 Australians and 100,000 of those on a full-time basis is suffering a skilled worker shortage?
Horse Industry Pioneer, Mavis Lockwood
Mavis Lockwood has been riding horses for more than 78 years and still competes. Her story proves that age doesn't weary a true equestrian champion
Information on Women in Agriculture, Rural and Farming
Check out these websites for more information on Women in Agriculture, Rural and Farming
Information on Women in Non-Traditional Trades
Check out these websites for more information on Women in Non-Traditional Trades!
Environmental Scan 2010
A perfect storm of shortages ... are we ready?
Talent Identification Program for Riders
The inaugural Racing Victoria/SW TAFE Talent Identification Program for Riders camp was held at South West TAFE’s Glenormiston College Campus in South Victoria from Saturday September 26th until Saturday 3rd October 2009.
World food crisis set to deepen: AgriFood Skills Australia
Fourth National Agrifood Conference, Dockside Convention Centre, Cockle Bay Wharf, Sydney, 24-25 September 2009
Marketing facelift for VET - better outcomes from industry training: AgriFood Skills Australia
A major new national effort to reposition the image of Australia's national vocational education and training (VET) system - and to promote better outcomes from training - will be revealed this week at the National AgriFood Conference 2009 held at Sydney's Dockside Convention Centre (Thursday-Friday 24-25 September, starting at 8.30am).
Regional Jobs Summit in Narrabri features on get farming e-guide
Regional Jobs Summit in Narrabri features on get farming e-guide
NEW MERGED RURAL TRAINING PACKAGE Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management
AgriFood Skills Australia has reached an important stage in the merger process for the three rural industry training packages:
2009 Environmental Scan of the AgriFood Industries
Based on real-time industry views and evidence from across Australia, the Scan aims to give readers a clear understanding of the factors currently shaping and impacting on AgriFood workforce development and how Training Packages and the VET system more broadly are currently responding.
Agrifood offers job growth
AgriFood Skills Australia CEO, Arthur Blewitt, spoke at the ABARE Outlook Conference 2009 in Canberra.
Resilient Agri-food industry withstands economic downturn
Australia's $200 billion a year agri-food industry is well placed to withstand the national economic downturn and could be a source of jobs for hundreds of workers displaced from other industries,
National Farmers? Federation - 2009 Innovation in Agriculture Awards
Nominations for the National Farmers? Federation (NFF) 2009 Innovation in Agriculture Awards opened on the 2nd February 2009.
Agri-Food Directions E-Zine
Directions is an E-zine designed to highlight new directions and advances in agri-food skills and workforce development.
Read the E-Zine Now.
Student Guides: How To Become a Rural or Farming Apprentice
So you want to grow a career in the agricultural Industry? But you don't really know where to start? We've pulled together a guide of what's in an apprenticeship, how to get one and what the best part of getting involved in the industry!
Graeme Harris - Trade Teacher in Cotton Farming
Graeme Harris is an agriculture teacher at Farrer Memorial High School, in Tamworth. He has recently piloted a Cotton training program for schools - the only one of it's kind. He chats about what it's like to teach on the land - and the charms that come with it.
Hayley Andrews - Equine Student
Hayley Andrews chose her course because it's the only one of it's kind in Australia. She moved from one side of the country to the other, to pursue her passion. In her course at the National Centre for Equine Education, Hayley is studying a Diploma of Stud Management.
Solutions for labour shortages on the land
"Farming is significantly more than a block of dirt with an animal or plant on it," so says the National Farmers Federation labour shortage recommendations for 2008 which includes attracting seasonal workers from overseas and the student population while improving public perception and training.

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