NOC 2021 · 84120 · TEER 4
Specialized livestock workers and farm machinery operators
Unit group 84120 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Specialized livestock workers carry out feeding, health and breeding programs on dairy, beef, sheep, poultry, swine and other livestock farms. Farm machinery operators operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment. They are employed on crop, livestock, fruit, vegetable and specialty farms.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- apiary technician
- artificial inseminator
- baler - agriculture
- baling machine operator - farm
- beef cattle herdsperson
- beekeeping technician
- binder operator - agriculture
- cattle herdsperson
- chick sexer
- combine operator
- cowhand
- cropsprayer machine operator
- cultivator operator
- custom combine operator
- custom harvest crewperson
- custom harvester
- dairy herdsperson
- dressage and stunt horse trainer
- farm equipment operator
- farm machinery custom operator
- farm machinery operator
- farrowing technician
- grain custom harvester
- harvester machine operator
- hay baler operator - agriculture
- herd attendant
- herd superintendent
- herder - stockyards
- herdsman/woman
- herdsperson
- hop-picking machine operator
- horse breaker
- horse trainer
- livestock attendant
- livestock driver
- livestock yard attendant
- livestock yardman/woman
- pasture rider
- penrider
- pork production technician
- pork production technician apprentice
- racehorse exerciser
- racehorse trainer
- sheep handler
- sheep herdsperson
- shepherd
- stock attendant
- swine herdsperson
- swine technician
- threshing machine operator
- tobacco harvesting machine operator
- tractor operator - farm
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.