Career Farming

Developing your farming career in Australia

These programmes offer a pathway to developing your farming career.

Australia offers a unique combination of opportunities in a wide range of agricultural sectors. Our methods are sophisticated, up to date and often on a very large scale. This enables you to add new perspective to your education, training and practical experience.

Australia also gives you a great opportunity to stand on your own feet in a safe new country while developing skills and gaining experience. You can expect to develop personally and professionally.

Programmes are designed for applicants with an appropriate initial level of relevant education, training and work experience. You will be able to specify which work type and experience you intend to gain, and for how long.

We offer you the safety and security of a professional organisation and a database of employers roles built up over 28 years.

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Key facts

Our programmes run from 3 -12 months, making them suitable to productively fill your long vacation or for a full year.
The opportunity to take several jobs over a period of up to 12 months allows you to build up experience in different environments and sectors
A dedicated back up and support service with professional staff is here to help you get the most of working in Australia

Our process

We prepare your career profile, including your career development aims
Your profile (including your skill development aims) is promoted to our unique database of 2,000 employers in all agricultural sectors who read our employer lists every week looking to employ keen and motivated young staff
We start the process of matching you to suitable employers
We provide an arrival and welcome service which includes setting you up with all the paperwork and other admin you need to work in Australia
We provide an Australian Agriculture familiarisation course (5 days residential) on our training farm in South East Queensland
We provide a detailed job matching service which links you to a choice of roles that meet your aspirations. With our help you choose the role that suits you best.
We arrange your travel from our training farm to your new employer

Earning potential - up to $40,000 savings in 12 months

Your earning ability here in Australia will depend on your skills and how successfully you integrate into your role here. Minimum wages in Australia are generous and fair, and good workers are readily offered better pay rates.

Weekly take home pay starts at approximately $500 per week (based on 38 hour week at legal minimum wages)
Experienced and skilled workers are likely to receive significantly more once skills and effectiveness have been confirmed.

This rate normally includes food and accommodation.
Personal expenses are minimal when living and working on a farm.

Savings over a 3 month period can quite realistically be $6-10,000, and in a year of work $24-40,000 Australian Dollars

Excellent value for early career farmers

WORKING HOLIDAY VISA PROGRAMME PRICES
We offer significantly discounted preferential rates for early career farmers.
(The following rates relate to Nationalities eligible for 417 and 462 Working Holiday Visas)

365 DAY PROGRAMME
Up to 4 jobs, 12 months
(welcome and arrival service)

Normal price $2,600

Career Farmer price $2,100

88 DAY + PROGRAMME
Normally 1 job, 3 months
(welcome and arrival service)

Normal Price $2,000

Career Farmer Price $1,800

88 DAY PROGRAMME
1 job, 3 months

Normal Price $1,400

Career Farmer Price $1,200

Eligibility

Different visa options are available to different nationalities and these lead to different programme options.

VISA eligibility

Our career farmer programmes require that you are on a career development pathway for a farming career and that you have accumulated approximately 2 years of relevant experience from part time or full time farming roles.

PROGRAMME ELIGIBILITY

Sectors and Jobs
Please see the image gallery below to get a flavour of where you may be working

Beef Cattle
Dairy Farming
Pig breeding and production
Sheep breeding, meat and wool production
Other livestock
Horses - breeding, training and equestrian
Veterinary and vet nursing
Broadacre arable farming (a very wide range of crops and specialisations)
Irrigated Crops
Horticulture
Fruit, nut and vegetable growing
Tractor and machinery work including harvest contracting
Mechanical and machinery maintenance
Tractors and other large machinery (graders, dozers, headers, operation with various implements)
Property maintenance, and fencing
Irrigation and water supply

Visas, nationalities and eligibility

We have different programmes available depending what visa type is available to you.
You can check this using the VISA TYPES link here.
WORKING HOLIDAY VISA COUNTRIES (417 AND 462)
Nationalities eligible for Working Holiday Visas are able to take part in the programme outlined on this page.
OTHER COUNTRIES
Other countries may be eligible for SPECIAL VISA PROGRAMMES which we are currently developing. You can find out more information using this link.

visa types