GREEN CERT IRELAND · QQI LEVEL 5 + 6 · BLENDED, PART-TIME
The Green Cert, built
around your week.
Nine months. Live evening classes, learning you do when it suits, and practical days on working Irish farms. No career break. No college commute.
LEVEL 5 — CERTIFICATE IN AGRICULTURE · 5M20454
LEVEL 6 — CERTIFICATE IN FARMING · 6S20487
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Same L5 & L6 QQI awards as Teagasc
Born from the expertise of Forus Training
NEXT INTAKE
September 2026
9 months, part-time
Two intakes a year
150-hour placement per level on an approved farm
4 farm days plus on-farm skills demonstrations
Places allocated first-come, first-served.
A WEEK THAT WORKS
Here's what a normal week looks like
Most of our learners have a full-time job, a farm, or both. The course was built that way on purpose.
MON
Your job & the farm
TUE
Live class
1 hour, evening, on Zoom
WED
Yours
THU
Self-directed learning
on the LMS, when it suits
FRI
Yours
SAT
Occasional farm day
planned well in advance
SUN
Yours
Live class
LMS study
Farm day / skills demo
Indicative week — your cohort’s timetable is published before you enrol
IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?
Built for people who can't put life on hold
SUCCESSION
Taking over the home farm
The transfer is on the table and the accountant has said the words “Green Cert”. The stamp duty and TAMS deadlines won’t wait two and a half years.
ALREADY FARMING
Formalising what you know
Years of farming, no paper. Get the recognised qualification — and the business skills — without stepping back from the farm or the job.
NEW TO FARMING
Coming into agriculture
Career-changer, returner, or marrying into a farm. You don’t need your own land — we arrange your host-farm placement.
THE PATHWAY
Two awards. One plan.
The Green Cert means completing both QQI awards. We run them as one joined-up pathway, so you never fall into the gap between Level 5 and Level 6.
QQI LEVEL 5 · 120 CREDITS · 5M20454
Certificate in Agriculture
The foundation: principles of agriculture, farm safety and assurance, soils, business & technology, pesticides, communications and your first 150-hour placement — plus husbandry electives matched to your enterprise.
QQI LEVEL 6 · 50 CREDITS · 6S20487
Certificate in Farming
The management layer: farm business planning, performance measurement, sustainable farming and a second 150-hour placement at management level — the modules succession decisions lean on.
THE FARM HUB NETWORK
Learn on farms that set the standard
Dairy, beef, sheep and tillage hubs across the midlands — Signpost programme farms, Teagasc BETTER Farm participants and award-winning organic enterprises. Real operations, real seasons.
WHY IT PAYS
The cert that unlocks the supports
Stamp duty exemption
Farm transfers for qualified farmers under 35.
TAMS at up to 60%
Young-farmer capital grant rate, within 5 years of qualifying.
Stock & consanguinity reliefs
Where you meet the qualified-farmer test.
Young Farmer Scheme
The recognised qualification for young-farmer supports.
FIRST COHORT UNDERWAY
Graduate stories — coming after certification
Our first learners are working through the programme now. Their stories, results and farms will appear here once QQI certification completes.
SEPTEMBER 2026 INTAKE
Five minutes with us will tell you if this fits.
Book a free consultation, or call and ask us the awkward questions — eligibility, grants, farm days, the lot. If it’s not right for you, we’ll say so.