Professional Certificate in Agribusiness
The Professional Certificate in Agribusiness is designed to provide the student with business skills specific to agriculture. Career paths such as production agriculture, agricultural lending, commodity marketing, risk management, business management, and agricultural retail sales would be well served by completion of this certificate. Students will learn valuable skills in price risk management through hedging practices, effective management of business resources and leadership of human resources, analyzing economic factors and their relationship to agriculture, basic salesmanship skills, and the impact of agricultural and food policy on the agriculture industry.
Courses
- AGRI 101 — Ag Leadership and Issues I
- AGRI 102 — Ag Leadership and Issues II
- AGRI 108 — Animal Science
- AGRI 118 — Plant Science
- AGRI 131 — Introduction to Agribusiness Systems
- AGRI 132 — Agriculture Economics
- AGRI 133 — Agricultural and Food Policy
- AGRI 134 — Marketing Farm Commodities
- AGRI 136 — Ag Credit and Finance
- AGRI 138 — Ag Business Management
- CAPP 125 — Microcomputer Applications