Industry endorsement

The NCDEA's role for the dairy industry is to establish a national learning and development framework for the dairy industry career path supported by first class resources and national standards.

To achieve this there are three areas in which the NCDEA works:

• Skills and knowledge required to manage a dairy farm or dairy processing plant
• Specialist technical skills required by the dairy farmer and/or the supply chain, i.e. milking machine testing
• Other skills, e.g. Company Director or group facilitation skills

For the skills required to operate and manage a dairy farm the aim is to have a training framework that begins with offering new entrants the skills and knowledge essential to work safely and effectively on a dairy farm, then progress through the core skills and knowledge required to operate the farm, onto those required to manage production components of the business, and ultimately to manage the whole business.