AGEC 141: Introduction To Agribusiness Management
Credits 1This is an introductory course dealing with the economic importance of the agribusiness community and the potential for employment with the agribusiness industry. (F, S)
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AGEC 142: Agribusiness Internship Orientation I
Credits 1A combination of individual and group meetings designed to develop knowledge and skills pertinent to agricultural industries. This course prepares a student for an internship in agriculture. Topics covered include career exploration, self-evaluation, employment skills development, and job acquisition correspondences. (F)
AGEC 143: Agribusiness Internship Orientation II
Credits 1A combination of individual and group meetings designed to develop knowledge and skills pertinent to agricultural industries. This course prepares a student for an internship in agriculture. Topics covered include goal setting, career skill inventory and interpersonal relationship development. (S)
AGEC 145: Farm Records
Credits 3This is a basic course in farm balance sheets, accounts, inventories, enterprise and production records, and various other financial records. The course also includes, but is not limited to, crop and feed check, monthly inventory, and family living expenses. The course will cover paper-based as well as computerized farm recordkeeping systems. (S)
AGEC 197: Farm and Ranch Management Internship
Credits 4This course will begin the student' s knowledge of the recordkeeping process. The student will be responsible for completing a set of records for their family farm or a practice farm as directed by the instructor. The student will also begin a FINPACK analysis by completing a beginning balance sheet for their family farm or for a practice farm. (S, Su)
AGEC 231: Professional Selling Skills
Credits 3AGEC 231 explores some of the human elements of agribusiness. It is designed for students studying agriculture who plan a professional career in agribusiness. The course is also highly practical for students outside of agriculture who are interested in pursing a career in professional selling. It recognizes the wide diversity of backgrounds, interest areas and problems young professionals are likely to face as they begin their careers. The approach taken in this class is highly pragmatic and attempts to give the student more than a glimpse of a wide array of concepts of human behavior and professional selling techniques. (S)
AGEC 242: Introduction to Agricultural Management
Credits 3Farm or agribusiness management concepts, measuring management performance, developing and improving management skills such as managing risk, managing income taxes, farm business analysis, controlling and using land, human resource management, and machinery management. (F, S)
AGEC 244: Introduction to Agricultural Marketing
Credits 3A study of the agricultural marketing system to include cash marketing, commodity futures trading, branded products merchandising and the interrelationship of the government and international trade. (F)
AGEC 245: Commodity Market Analysis
Credits 3Addresses advanced commodity market concepts and tools. Includes the study and application of fundamental and technical analysis of the grain and livestock markets. Prerequisite: AGEC 244. (S)
AGEC 246: Introduction to Agricultural Finance
Credits 3Introduction to agricultural finance provides background in farm and agribusiness credit use and evaluation. Discussion of specific financial conditions on farms and in agribusiness. (S)
AGEC 247: Agricultural Land Resource Acquisition
Credits 2The study and application of management and financial considerations involved with renting and purchasing farmland. (F)
AGEC 248: Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance
Credits 3This course presents principles of loss control, insurance, and financial risk management, as they apply to current farm operations. Basic concepts of financial risk management, crop insurance, property, liability, and disability insurance, life and health insurance, and functional and financial operations of insurers will be examined. Primary emphasis is placed on applying risk management principles to farm operations in order to manage risk exposure and improve financial security and profitability. (S)
AGEC 250: Agribusiness Sales
Credits 3The principles of salesmanship applied to the agricultural business. Topics include attitudes and value systems, basic behavioral patterns, relationship of sales to marketing, selling strategies, preparing for sales calls, making sales presentations, and closing sales. (S)
AGEC 274: Introduction to Cooperatives
Credits 3Theory, practice, and evaluation of cooperatives including principles, management, marketing, finance, taxes, legal issues, and adjusting to change. (F)
AGEC 292: Experimental Course
Credits 1A course designed to meet special departmental needs during new course development. It is used for one year after which time the course is assigned a different number.
AGEC 297: Farm and Ranch Management Internship
Credits 2In this course, the student will gather data in order to complete a set of annual farm accounting records and learn to complete a whole farm and enterprise analysis of those records. The student will be responsible for completing a farm analysis for their family farm or a practice farm as directed by the instructor. (F, S)