AEST Agriculture Systems Certification: Course Guide & Career Paths

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AEST AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS CERTIFICATION -
FOOD SCIENCE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025




ayrshire - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Dairy Cattle / red and
white mottled


brown swiss - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Dairy cattle / gray
color


guernsey - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Dairy Cattle / Brown
and white blotches


holstein - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔dairy cattle / black and
white color


jersey - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔dairy cattle / brown with
black on nose


milking shorthorn - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔dairy cattle /
stockier than other dairy breeds

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rotary milking parlor aka carousel - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Cows ride "merry-go-round"


herringbone milking parlor - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔-cows
enter and leave in groups
-cows stand at an angle to milkers


tandem milking parlor - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔cows enter
1 at a time


parallel milking parlor - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Cows
stand straight / perpendicular


Angus - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Beef Cattle-stocky body,
red or black, small ears no hump on back of neck


braford - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - red and
white. usually red around eyes, small hump on back of
neck


brahman - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Beef cattle - floppy
ears, large hump on back of neck

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Brangus - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - can also be
red, hump on back of neck


Charolais - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - white and
stocky, small ears


Chianina - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - white and
really tall


Hereford - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - red and
white, all white around eyes, no hump on back of neck


Santa Gertrudis - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle -
solid red, hump on back of neck


Simmental - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - red and
white, usually red around eyes, no hump on back of neck


Texas longhorn cattle - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle
- long horns