Mixed Crop Farmer (ANZSCO 121216)

On the Regional Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Mixed Crop Farmer on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Processing priority

Mixed Crop Farmer isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Mixed Crop Farmer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS Group B, requiring a qualification comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree or higher, or the substantial-experience pathway where the field of study does not match. This occupation's own task list names recruiting, coordinating and directing farm workers, which is a clear statement of what the code covers: running the enterprise and the people in it. VETASSESS offers four pathways for Group B, and the fourth rests on substantial experience rather than a matching field of study, which is the route most working growers take.

Where these applications come unstuck

Cropping work is seasonal and often contracted, so applicants commonly assemble evidence from several properties and seasons. That pattern can read as farm work rather than enterprise management. What VETASSESS needs is the business: the planting and rotation decisions, the budgets, the marketing of the harvest, and the staff you directed. Where the property was family-owned, VETASSESS will still want the business role documented rather than inferred from the family relationship, which catches applicants who assume the connection speaks for itself.

An honest read on this pathway

Mixed Crop Farmer is ROL-only, so the 482 and 186 visas are not available to it and the routes that remain are the 407, 491 and 494, the latter two carrying the designated regional area requirement. Cropping regions are overwhelmingly regional in any case, so that condition often fits the work better than it does for other occupations. If your enterprise centred on one crop rather than several, check whether a named grower code fits, since the list tier can differ between codes that look like close neighbours.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Mixed Crop Farmer is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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