Mixed Livestock Farmer (ANZSCO 121317)

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 Livestock 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 Livestock 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 Livestock Farmer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS Group B, requiring a Bachelor-comparable qualification or substantial experience in place of a matching field of study. This code covers running an enterprise across more than one livestock type, and the assessment is directed at the management of that enterprise — planning, budgeting, stock decisions and directing staff — rather than at breadth of animal handling experience. Several pages in this family list selecting, training and supervising staff and contractors among the highly relevant tasks, which is a useful test of whether the code describes what you actually did.

Where these applications come unstuck

Applicants often choose this code because their work spanned several species, when the real question is whether they ran the business at all. Mixed experience as a worker across cattle, sheep and goats is still the Farm Worker group. Where you did run a mixed operation, the documentation problem is usually showing it as one enterprise rather than as several part-time roles.

An honest read on this pathway

This is a ROL-only code, so the 482 and 186 sponsored visas are structurally out of reach and the available routes are the 407, and the 491 and 494 with their designated regional area conditions. Worth noting that some single-species codes in the same family carry CSOL, so if your enterprise genuinely centred on one species the more specific code may have a materially better visa footprint.

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 Livestock 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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