NAGCAT Guidelines

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Animal Care

• Cleaning service alley (PDF 463KB)
• Feeding milk to calves (PDF 505KB)
• Feeding of silages or corn (to cattle) (PDF 542KB)
• Feeding hay to cows (square bales) (PDF 551KB)
• Feeding hay to horses (square bales) (PDF 561KB)
• Leading/grooming animals (PDF 433KB)
• Milking cows (using a pipeline) (PDF 689KB)
• Working with large animals (horses, cattle, etc.) (PDF 746KB)
• Catching & holding a pig (PDF 422KB)
• Working with poultry (PDF 715KB)

Manual Labor

• Bending (PDF 570KB)
• Climbing (PDF 677KB)
• Lifting (PDF 598KB)
• Picking rock (PDF 674KB)
• Hand-weeding (PDF 654KB)
• Harvesting strawberries (PDF 599KB)
• Hand-harvesting vegetables (PDF 680KB)
• Detasseling corn(PDF 501KB)
• Pruning trees & vines (PDF 523KB)
• Harvesting tree fruit (PDF 650KB)

General Activities

• Farming with an ATV (PDF 619KB)
• Calf pens or hutches (cleaning) (PDF 592KB)
• Cleaning grain bins (PDF 454KB)
• Composting (PDF 426KB)
• Irrigation systems (installation & operation) (PDF 627KB)
• Operating a skid steer (PDF 558KB)
• Farmstead equipment (PDF 483KB)
• Repairing fence (PDF 560KB)
• Running pressure washer (PDF 536KB)
• Using a front-end loader (tractor mounted) (PDF 523KB)

Implement Operations

• Trailed implements (fieldwork) (PDF 584KB)
• 3-Point implements (fieldwork) (PDF 616KB)
• Remote hydraulics (fieldwork) (PDF 653KB)
• PTO powered implements (fieldwork) (PDF 653KB)
• Self-propelled equipment (fieldwork) (PDF 627KB)
• Spreading solid manure (PDF 645KB)
• Using an auger wagon (PDF 475KB)
• Planting small grains (using a grain drill) (PDF 710KB)
• Unloading grain (PDF 509KB)
• Unloading silage (into an upright silo) (PDF 583KB)

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Haying Operations

• Cutting hay (with a pull-type mower conditioner) (PDF 656KB)
• Raking hay (PDF 627KB)
• Baling hay (PDF 643KB)
• Loading square bales (onto the wagon) (PDF 537KB)
• Unloading hay (PDF 660KB)
• Moving round bales (with 3-point hitch) (PDF 617KB)

Tractor Fundamentals

• Tractor operation chart (PDF 323KB)
• Driving a farm tractor (no implement attached) (PDF 732KB)
• Trailed implements (hitch/unhitch) (PDF 511KB)
• 3-Point implements (hitch/unhitch) (PDF 470KB)
• Hydraulics (connect/disconnect) (PDF 405KB)
• Power take-off (connect/disconnect) (PDF 402KB)

Specialty Production

• Harvesting ginseng berries (PDF 746KB)
• Harvesting ginseng roots (PDF 745KB)
• Trimming Christmas trees (PDF 577KB)
• Riding setter to plant tobacco (PDF 549KB)
• Topping tobacco (PDF 610KB)
• Stripping tobacco (PDF 580KB)
• Harvesting tobacco (PDF 734KB)
• Hanging tobacco in drying barn (PDF 709KB)
• Fieldwork with horses (trailed implements) (PDF 749KB)
• Hitch/unhitch horses (trailed implements) (PDF 660KB)

Spanish Version

• Cómo agacharse en forma segura (Bending) (PDF 742KB)
• Cómo levantar carga en forma segura (Lifting) (PDF 777KB)
• Cómo cosechar las fresas (Harvesting strawberries) (PDF 712KB)
• Cómo cosechar a mano los vegetales (Hand harvesting vegetables) (PDF846KB)
• Cómo manejar un tractor agricola, sin remolcar implementos (Driving a tractor) (PDF 896KB)
• Trabajo agricola con un vehiculo para todo terreno, atv (Using an ATV for farmwork) (PDF 768KB)

The "North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks" contains several errors and omissions that appear in the 1999-2001 publication. Please accept our regrets and note the errata sheet that lists these errors and omissions.

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