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Title / Describe methods to maximise pasture production, and pasture renovation and renewal
Level / 4 / Credits / 5
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe methods to maximise pasture production; describe the techniques used to establish or renovate pasture,and reasons for pasture renewal or renovation; and perform calculations.
Classification / Agriculture > Farming Skills
Available grade / Achieved
Critical health and safety prerequisites / Open.
Explanatory notes
None.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe methods to maximise pasture production.
Evidence requirements
1.1Methods to maximise pasture production are explained in terms of soil management, pasture species selection,pasture utilisation, fertilising, irrigation, pest and weed control.
1.2Methods to maximise pasture production are described in terms of plant compatibility, potential pasture growth, and quality improvements.
1.3Pasture mix is described in terms of plant requirements, potential pasture growth, and quality improvements.
1.4Pasture mix is determined in accordance with grazing system and animal requirements.
Outcome 2
Describe the techniques used to establish or renovate pasture, and reasons for pasture renewal or renovation.
Evidence requirements
2.1Current industry techniques to establish or renovate pasture are described in terms of their features.
Rangetechniques – direct drill, oversow, cultivation, fallow, conventional drilling, broadcast;
features – destruction of previous vegetation, seed-bed preparation, nutrient provision, pasture species and cultivar, timing and method of sowing, early pasture management.
2.2Reasons for undertaking pasture renewal or renovation are described in terms of the likely gains to the producer.
Outcome 3
Perform calculations.
Evidence requirements
3.1Total seed required is calculated from a given seed mix.
3.2Fertiliser requirement is calculated from given fertiliser rates.
Replacement information / This unit standard, unit standard 8623, unit standard 19153, unit standard 19079, and unit standard 24627 have been replaced by unit standard 28859This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process / Version / Date / Last Date for AssessmentRegistration / 1 / 25 June 2002 / 31 December 2020
Review / 2 / 23 April 2008 / 31 December 2020
Review / 3 / 18 June 2015 / 31 December 2020
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.
Agriculture Industry Training OrganisationSSB Code 101558 / New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2019 / / New Zealand Qualifications Aut