Agriculture

Suncrest College offers a full array of industry recognized agriculture courses for individuals and businesses in East Central Saskatchewan and West Central Manitoba. We offer face to face and online options plus we can customize courses and deliver them throughout the region.

Featured Courses

Certified Crop Advisor

This course is designed to help prepare you for the Certified Crop Advisor exams (International and Prairie Provinces).

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Drone Pilot Certification - Ag Drone School

Our experienced instructors will teach you how to fly by providing hands-on learning with a variety of different drones as well as help you determine which drone best suits your needs.

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Drone Pilot Training - Spraying Clinic

This 1-day course prepares you for Transport Canada's Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC).

Hybrid

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Landscape Pesticide Applicator/Industrial Applicator

The Landscape Pesticide Applicator & Industrial Applicator program meets the unique training needs of individuals, private businesses, local governments and Crown corporations.

You will learn how to use herbicides, insecticides and fungicides on outdoor residential, commercial and public lands (such as yard care service, park or golf course maintenance). Your studies will also focus on using herbicides for vegetation control in industrial areas (such as roadsides, rights of way, well sites, parking lots and equipment yards).

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Power Mobile Equipment - Theory

This program is an approximately 8-hour program that gives an intro to topics including:

Review of applicable OHS legislation
Types of powered mobile equipment
Equipment stability
Equipment Inspection
Equipment hazards
Equipment fuel sources
Electrical hazards
Equipment operations
A practical inspection
On equipment operation

(Please note: certification requires a second-day Assessment on a specific piece of equipment, not included in this course)

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Rigging and Hoisting

Western Trade Training Institute (WTTI) is the provincial leader for mobile crane operator training in Saskatchewan. This one-day course has been developed to review OHS regulations around rigging and hoisting. Participants will learn safe rigging practices.

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Saskatchewan Water Security Agency - Qualified Persons Course

This course offers the introductory concepts that are important to ensure Qualified Persons (QP) have the appropriate skills and knowledge necessary to assist in the continued growth and resiliency of the agricultural sector. During the Intro QP Training course, attendees will learn about Water Security Agency’s Agricultural Water Management Strategy, the role, and functions of a QP and the drainage approval process. This course also teaches how to prepare the plans, how to fill in the drainage application, and a bit about climate change and how drainage works need to be designed to be resilient to climate change.

If you haven’t taken the Introductory QP course since 2020, we encourage you to retake the course, as new information has been added.

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