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Dairy Farmer
OFO Code: 612102
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 612102
- Occupation
- Dairy Farmer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6121 · Livestock and Dairy Producers
Official description
Livestock and dairy producers s plan, organize and perform farming operations to breed and raise domesticated animals (excluding poultry), such as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, horses and camels, for the production of meat, milk and other dairy products, skins, and wool or for use as working, sporting or recreational animals for sale or delivery to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets. Farmers not involved in co-operatives are also classified under this unit group.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Dairy Farm Foreman, Dairy Production Supervisor
- Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of livestock, produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of farm activities and transactions
- Mixing feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions and distributing or hand-feeding to animals for consumption
- Milking animals by hand or using milking machines
- Monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition such as rate of weight gain
- Performing duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding, artificial insemination, and helping with animal births
- Grooming , marking, clipping, trimming, drenching and/or castrating animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool
- Cultivating pastures and providing and monitoring fodder and water supplies to maintain appropriate nutritional levels and condition of livestock
- Herding livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, sheds, vehicles, or other enclosures
- Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining kinds and amounts of stock to produce, planning and coordinating production accordingly
- Soring and carrying out some processing of animal and dairy produce
- Maintaining and cleaning farm buildings, machinery, equipment, and structures
- Training and supervising workers in animal care procedures, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions and hiring and discharging workers and contractors
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.