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Wool harvesting

Wool – there's no fibre like it in the world, with products generated for in the home through to premium clothing.


To enhance capability in the wool harvesting industry we have two entry level micro-credentials that help develop and support those new to the industry.

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In this section

New to industry


  • Amenity (parks and gardens)
  • Apiculture (beekeeping)
  • Arboriculture (trees)
  • Dairy goats
  • Dairy farming
  • Dairy processing
  • Energy and petrochemical operations
  • Equine (horses)
  • Fruit production
  • Hydrology
  • Indoor crop production
  • Landscape construction
  • Meat processing
  • Nursery
  • Pork
  • Post harvest
  • Poultry
  • Rural Pest Operations
  • Seafood
  • Sheep, Beef and Deer
  • Sports turf
  • Outdoor Vegetable production
  • Viticulture (wine growing)
  • Wool harvesting
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