Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for harvesting
- Assess crop maturity and quality in readiness for harvesting
- Determine pre-harvest treatments for the control and eradication of pests and implement appropriately
- Identify and comply with licence or permit requirements
- Assess insurance requirements and plan and implement required risk management strategies
- Identify work health and safety hazards and assess risks in crop harvesting
- Determine harvest strategy
- Estimate and calculate optimum timing to carry out harvest according to crop maturity assessment
- Assess resource requirements appropriate to the size of the crop and estimated timing of harvest
- Assess technology to ensure most efficient performance of operations
- Arrange and confirm required labour and equipment to carry out harvesting operations within budgetary constraints
- Identify and arrange appropriate requirements for fire prevention and control
- Coordinate the harvest strategy
- Implement work health and safety controls
- Implement appropriate communication strategies
- Implement harvesting operations and adjust as required according to weather, equipment and staff requirements
- Coordinate and monitor equipment operation
- Identify and control existing and potential biosecurity hazards appropriately
- Complete harvest operation
- Identify appropriate storage resources and strategies for drying grain
- Segregate grain quality of grain to marketing grades and monitor for moisture content according to classification standards
- Evaluate harvesting operations and outcomes against harvest strategy
- Document and record information for continual analysis and effective planning management