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Advanced Certificate in Agriculture (ACA) - Herd Number Required?

  • 19-11-2011 12:04am
    #1
    Dapos
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭


    Hello,

    I'm looking to do the Advanced Certificate in Agriculture (ACA) (online version) as I may talk over my father's land in the future.

    http://www.teagasc.ie/ecollege/aca_course.asp

    Do I need a herd number for this? If so what exactly are the requirements?

    I've been emailing teagasc but they haven't replied. May just have to ring them.

    Any advise would be a great help, thanks.


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  • #2
    sinewc
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭sinewc


    Dapos wrote: »
    Hello,

    I'm looking to do the Advanced Certificate in Agriculture (ACA) (online version) as I may talk over my father's land in the future.

    http://www.teagasc.ie/ecollege/aca_course.asp

    Do I need a herd number for this? If so what exactly are the requirements?

    I've been emailing teagasc but they haven't replied. May just have to ring them.

    Any advise would be a great help, thanks.

    hi,

    i am currently doing this course.

    you do not need a herd number.
    you'll need €2093.0, a level 6 or higher qualification in a non agri course.
    don't hold your breath waiting on an e-mail from them. they are quite useless.

    you'll need a 'home farm' to study on and keep a diary. this will have to have a herdnumber but it does not have to be yours. it can be your parents or neighbour or anybody you know.

    beware of two things,
    1- this course is called an online option but its barely online. you'll have to do about 20 open days. (some are week days which is an issue for working people) some in classrooms, some on research farms and some in discussion groups. we've only done one little on-line assignment yet. more will follow apparently. they gave us a stack of books on different modules for the course and we sit little exams each class room day. it's not difficult, just annoying.

    2- the stamp duty relief for farmers is only written into the finance act until the end of 2012. with the state the country is in you can guess they'll cut the relief in this or the next budget. having that said it'll probably still worth having done. i know it is necessary to have a green cert to apply to the national reserve for entitlements.

    si


  • #3
    Dapos
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Dapos


    Thanks very much for your replay. Just the information I was looking for!


  • #4
    tweety11981
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭tweety11981


    Hi Dapos, just wondering did you get into the course, i hear there is a huge demand for it?


  • #5
    Dapos
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Dapos


    tweety11981 wrote: »
    Hi Dapos, just wondering did you get into the course, i hear there is a huge demand for it?

    I haven't, you can't apply until December yet


  • #6
    tweety11981
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭tweety11981


    thanks dapos, must keep an eye on the website. I think it is starting in March or May next year?


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