Palmerston North · Online course

Organic Farming & Sustainable Agriculture in Palmerston North

Our Organic Farming & Sustainable Agriculture Certificate is designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to succeed in the industry.

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What you'll learn

The course is the same online course wherever you study from. Its modules:

1. Module 1 – Organic Farming
2. Module 2 – Sustainable Agriculture

See the full Organic Farming & Sustainable Agriculture course outline

Agriculture & farming near Palmerston North

Places in and around Palmerston North where you can see this field in action.

Massey University farms (opens in a new tab)
Massey operates six farm units covering just over 2,000 hectares, including two dairy units, two sheep and beef farms, a deer unit and a mixed dairy-support farm. Most of the farmland is near the Manawatū campus.
The farms are used for teaching and research, and Massey takes visit requests through its farm contact page.
Feilding saleyards (opens in a new tab)
Livestock saleyards in central Feilding where more than 50,000 cattle and 450,000 sheep are sold each year, with store stock sold on Fridays.
Weekly Friday tours led by local farmers walk visitors through the sheep pens and the cattle rostrum to see the auction process.
AgResearch (Bioeconomy Science Institute), Palmerston North (opens in a new tab)
AgResearch, now a group within the Bioeconomy Science Institute, has one of its two national centres in Palmerston North. Its stated mission is a strong, sustainable pastoral agricultural sector.
Its published research on pasture and livestock is useful background reading, and its presence shapes the city's agricultural science community.

What our students say

Easy to understand and great support

I have been conducting a 12 week course, the information provided has been easy to understand and extremely informative. If at any point i have run into difficulties, my tutor has been there to give assistance and advise me the best way to progress forward.

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