Agricultural Business

Agricultural Business Major

This program blends a strong base of agriculture, business, and general education courses while maximizing flexibility, which allows students to choose electives to fit their career interests and expectations. A wide array of challenging, satisfying, and rewarding careers await graduates as demand for trained professionals in agribusiness continues to outpace the supply of qualified graduates. Clusters of employment opportunities include agricultural sales and marketing, agribusiness management, agribusiness finance, agribusiness information management, food marketing management, global agribusiness, and rural economic development.

Program Outcomes

Upon graduation, those who complete the program will have the ability to:

• Create and present a strategic agribusiness plan that incorporates market analysis, risk analysis, and financial analysis.
• Select and apply investment analysis techniques and interpret results.
• Construct, interpret, and analyze a set of coordinated financial statements, consisting of balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow.
• Use spreadsheets, computerized record keeping, and financial analysis software.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the interconnections between production, sales, and the consumption of food and fiber.
• Evaluate the impact of cash forward contracts, commodity futures, and option contracts on the buying/selling prices of commodities.

Agricultural Business Major Courses

Online Agricultural Business Minor

The agricultural business minor gives students a broad understanding of marketing techniques, livestock and grain commodities, financing, and economics of agriculture. This minor complements many of the agriculture-based and business-based majors because students learn valuable information regardless of whether they work in lending, consulting, sales, or run their own business.

Agricultural Business Minor Courses

Online Agricultural Business Certification

The agricultural business certificate gives students a broad understanding of marketing techniques, livestock and grain commodities, financing, and economics of agriculture. This certificate provides students valuable information and skills regardless of whether they work in lending, consulting, sales, or run their own business.

Agricultural Business Certification Courses