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Primary ITO will apply to the Ministry of Education for more Trades Academy places with demand from schools now outstripping supply.

New ‘micro-credentials’ in wool harvesting will help meet a critical need to train shearers and wool handlers, claims Primary ITO chief executive Linda Sissons.

One in five of all people wanting to take up a dairy apprenticeship is coming from Auckland.

Dairy farming is a hands-on industry, but Frankie Stevens discovered that understanding the theory and business practices that underpin a farm is the key to success, comments Primary ITO.

The 2007 national Farm Manager of the Year award winner Emily Woolsey (32) and her husband Daniel, of Southland, had a good grasp of dairy farming, says Primary ITO.

A dairy apprenticeship scheme jointly developed by Federated Farmers and Primary ITO could have 100 apprentices nationwide by June.

Primary ITO’s CEO Dr Linda Sissons, has a long career in vocational education, but it has only been in the last three years that she has “dived” into the primary sector.

The dairy industry has launched an ambitious scheme to encourage young New Zealanders to make careers on farms.

Brent Love, director farm enterprise at KPMG, explains how to make it in dairy for 20-somethings.

Brent Love, director farm enterprise at KPMG, explains how to make it in dairy for 20-somethings.