Tech innovations underpin new game-changing farm training program - Beef Central

QUEENSLAND authorities workplace organisation AgForce has joined forces with skills grooming steadfast Response to motorboat a game-changing grooming programme for Australian farmers and graziers.

Designed to span the acquisition spread created by the closure of Queensland’s cultivation colleges, the caller AgLearn, AgTrain, and AgMate platforms supply a modern online attack to training, utilizing innovations specified arsenic virtual reality, augmented reality, and immersive 360 experiences, arsenic good arsenic accepted workplace grooming utilizing modern exertion and tools.

AgForce Training Pty Ltd was launched contiguous astatine the Queensland Meat and Beef Industry “Pain Points” Muster, astatine Brisbane’s Story Bridge Hotel.

AgForce CEO Michael Guerin said the determination would guarantee the existent and adjacent procreation of agriculture workers person the grooming they request to proceed the occurrence of the agriculture industry.

“Agriculture is an indispensable manufacture and providing industry-relevant grooming is captious to ensuring the existent and aboriginal workforce is ‘job ready’ with the skills needed,” helium said.

AgForce surveys had unearthed a immense request for extended farming and grazing cultivation training, for example.

“Corporate employers unsocial instrumentality connected 160 caller employees each year,” Mr Guerin said.

“They desperately privation them trained up successful workplace wellness and safety, basal spot operations, basal livestock absorption and horsemanship skills, and it costs them a batch of money, time, and effort to bash that grooming themselves.

“By teaming up with Response, we tin enactment toward a transformative alteration successful pathways and acquisition for our manufacture successful Queensland.”

Service supplier Response has been operating much than 30 years and owns and operates 2 Registered Training Organisations.

It the largest supplier of method grooming to the beef processing manufacture successful Australia, and provides enactment and absorption grooming nationally and internationally.

The institution presently runs the Graduate Certificate successful Agribusiness connected behalf of the Australian Meat Processor Corporation, and works intimately with associations specified arsenic the Australian Meat Industry Council and the Meat Industry Training Advisory Council.

Paul Eldridge, Director of Strategy with Response Group International, said helium was looking guardant to the collaboration with AgForce.

“AgForce has a agelong and arrogant past of representing Queensland’s agrarian producers and we are excited astir moving successful concern with them to plan and present grooming courses that conscionable the needs of existent and adjacent procreation farmers,” helium said.

“Response has an enviable estimation for moving collaboratively with partners to present innovative and applicable solutions that payment manufacture – it is what we bash best.

“Our trainers travel from manufacture and it is our volition from the outset to impact manufacture profoundly successful this concern to guarantee that what is built and delivered is what manufacture wants and needs.

“It is clip to make a acceptable for intent and aboriginal proofed workforce arsenic we determination into a brave caller integer and exertion driven future.”