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Title / Demonstrate understanding of factors which contribute to pastoral livestock feed demand
Level / 3 / Credits / 5
Purpose / This unit standard is intended for people who are required to apply knowledge of pastoral livestock feed demand in a primary industry workplace.
Classification / Agriculture > Farming Skills
Available grade / Achieved
Explanatory notes
1 Examples of production targets include; lambing %, kg of milk solids per cow or per hectare (kg MS/cow, kg MS/ha), mating targets, meat/wool yields, weaning weights, condition score.
2 Nutritional value includes mega joules of metabolisable energy per kilogram of dry matter (MJME/kg DM or M/D or ME), dry matter content (DM), and protein %.
3 Feed demand should be expressed in kg DM and/or MJ ME.
4 Demonstration of understanding may be assessed in a number of ways, which could include, ability to complete practical tasks, if it is clear that the understanding is essential underpinning understanding to the task/s, and that the task/s could not be completed without the candidate having that understanding.
5 In the context of this unit standard, understanding means that there should be evidence of a learner’s thorough comprehension of a topic. A learner with a good understanding of a topic should have applied, or should be able to apply what they have learned to a workplace situation and will be able to alter their practices to the different contexts they are applying their learning to. Assessors should be confident that the learners’ understanding is embedded in their practices and behaviour.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate understanding of factors which contribute to pastoral livestock feed demand.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Describes factors which contribute to pastoral livestock feed demand.
1.2 Calculates individual feed demand for a minimum of two classes of livestock.
Range feed demand must be calculated monthly for a minimum of three months and must include examples of production targets per unit of individual livestock using industry accepted feed requirements.
1.3 Explains the differences in feed demand between two stock classes.
1.4 Describes the nutritional value of livestock feeds and industry recommendations for feeding to livestock.
Range must include pasture and three other livestock feeds.
Replacement information / This unit standard replaced unit standard 24628.Planned review date / 31 December 2020
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process / Version / Date / Last Date for Assessment /Registration / 1 / 16 July 2015 / N/A
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.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
Primary Industry Training OrganisationSSB Code 101558 / Ó New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2015