Beef Cattle Farmer (ANZSCO 121312)

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 Beef Cattle 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).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Beef Cattle Farmer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Assessed by VETASSESS as a Group B occupation, requiring a qualification comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree or higher, with a substantial-experience pathway available for applicants whose field of study does not match. The assessment turns on enterprise management — planning, budgeting, stock and staff decisions — rather than stockmanship. Several pages in this family list selecting, training and supervising staff and contractors among the highly relevant tasks.

Where these applications come unstuck

Two traps stack here. The first is the worker-versus-farmer line: mustering and handling cattle on someone else's property is the Farm Worker group, not this code. The second is more consequential and easy to miss, because it has nothing to do with your evidence. This code sits on the Regional Occupation List only, which changes which visas exist for it at all.

An honest read on this pathway

Being ROL-only is not a harder version of the same pathway, it is a different set of doors. The 482 and 186 visas draw on lists this code is not on, so they are structurally unavailable rather than competitive. What remains is the 407 training visa and the 491 and 494 regional visas, and both 491 and 494 require living and working in a designated regional area. If your plan assumed employer sponsorship into a city, this code does not support it.

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 Beef Cattle 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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