Dairy Cattle Farmer (ANZSCO 121313)

On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills 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 Dairy 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.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

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 Dairy Cattle Farmer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Dairy Cattle Farmer as a Group B occupation, which means a qualification comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree or higher. There is a fourth pathway built for people without a relevant field of study, resting on substantial experience instead, and it is the route most working farmers actually use. What VETASSESS is assessing throughout is whether you ran a farming enterprise, not whether you know how to farm.

Where these applications come unstuck

Milking on a roster is not this occupation, and this is the most common way the code catches people. Someone who milked, fed and drenched on another person's farm without running the enterprise, hiring anyone or handling its money sits under the Farm Worker groups, which are unrelated codes at a lower skill level and not on any skilled list. If you cannot describe your role in budgeting, taxation and debt or loan management, the code probably does not fit.

An honest read on this pathway

This is one of five codes in the family carrying CSOL alongside ROL, so the 482 and 186 sponsored visas are structurally available to it where they are not to the beef or mixed livestock codes. It is also the code sitting behind the largest industry labour agreement lane by sponsor count. Read the next line carefully though: that lane sponsors farm workers under different roles entirely, not this ANZSCO code.

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 Dairy 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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