You will learn how to control pests in and around structures such as homes, businesses, public buildings and storage facilities. Course content includes rodent control on public and private land (e.g., commercial and municipal pest control officers).

Pesticide manuals can be purchased from the Bookstore Processing Centre, call 1-866-596-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

You will study the application of pest control products to forest land, rights of way, water bodies, agricultural and non-agricultural lands. Applicants for the aerial license must hold a commercial pilot’s license and be insurable.

Pesticide manuals can be purchased from the Bookstore Processing Centre, call 1-866-569-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years, commercial pilot’s license, insurable

Your studies will focus on pest control products as part of primary agricultural production for the control of weeds, insects and diseases. Course content includes on-farm seed treatment, rodent control and weed control in farm ponds, dugouts and shelterbelts (e.g., custom applicators spraying crops).

Course manuals available for online purchase from SIAST bookstores or by calling the bookstore processing centre at 1-866-569-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

You will study the application of herbicides for vegetation control in standing or running water, or areas left exposed during periods of low water (e.g., weed control in irrigation canals).

Course manuals are available for online purchase from SIAST bookstores or by calling the bookstore processing centre at 1-866-569-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

You will learn how to use seed treatment products in commercial seed treatment operations (e.g., seed cleaning plants and commercial seed treatment plants).

Course manuals are available for online purchase from SIAST bookstores or by calling the bookstore processing centre at 1-866-569-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

Forestry Pesticide Applicator course includes the ground application of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides in forest management operations. Training for this category is not offered in Saskatchewan. For information about acquiring a forestry applicator license, contact the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture at 306-787-4662.

You will learn how to use fumigants for soil fumigation or to control pests of stored products in buildings, grain bins and elevators, rail cars, trucks and containers (e.g., fumigation of flour mills or grain storage facilities).

Course manuals can be purchased online from SIAST bookstores or by calling the bookstore processing centre at 1-866-569-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

This course focuses on how to use pest control products to control weeds, insects, diseases and other pests in or immediately around greenhouses during crop production, display or storage. Course content includes pest control on plants in occupied buildings.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

Your studies will focus on using herbicides for vegetation control in industrial areas, rights of way, parking lots, well sites and equipment yards.

Pesticide manuals can be purchased from the Bookstore Processing Centre, call 1-866-596-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

You will learn how to use pest control to protect ornamental plants and turf on residential, commercial and public lands, in plant nurseries and for Dutch Elm Disease control (e.g., yard care service, park or golf course maintenance).

Pesticide manuals can be purchased from the Bookstore, call 1-866-596-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

You will focus on using insecticides to control larvae and adult mosquitoes and other biting flies (e.g. Mosquito or black fly control programs).

Pesticide manuals can be purchased from the Bookstore Processing Centre, call 1-866-596-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

This course focuses on the use of fumigants on the farm. Farmers will learn how to use fumigants to control insects in stored grain as well as ground squirrels on their farms.

Pesticide manuals can be purchased from the Bookstore Processing Centre, call 1-866-596-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

This course fulfills the legislated requirements for dispenser certification in Saskatchewan. Dispenser certification prepares employees at retail outlets to safely handle and facilitate the sale of pest control products (e.g., staff at farm supply business).

Pesticide manuals can be purchased from the Bookstore Processing Centre, call 1-866-596-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

You will learn how to use rodenticides as part of an integrated program for the control of rats and mice (e.g., municipal pest control officers).

Pesticide manuals can be purchased from the Bookstore Processing Centre, call 1-866-596-8398.

Prerequisites: Minimum age 18 years

You will gain the basic skills and knowledge needed to understand how pruning affects the development and survival of trees. You will also learn how pruning is used for disease prevention. The course consists of classroom instruction and practical application of the principles of tree pruning. You will practice pruning under an instructor’s guidance. Homeowners, landscapers and tree pruners (commercial and municipal) will benefit from this course. It meets requirements for elm tree pruners in Saskatchewan under Dutch Elm Disease regulations.