The Agricultural Business concentration combines agriculture courses with varied offerings in accounting, business administration, and economics. Students with this concentration usually enter supply or marketing firms closely associated with farm production and work in areas such as agriculture credit, farm business management, agriculture supply firm management and marketing. A total of 53-55 credit hours are required. The following courses are required or can be selected for this concentration:
COMMON CORE COURSES (9 credit hours)
AGR 105 Agriculture Applications in Technology (3 hours)
AGR 108 Principles of Crop and Animal Production I (4 hours)
AGR 122 Agricultural Economics (3 hours)
Required courses:
AGR109 Principles of Crop and Animal Production II (3)
AGR312 Animal Nutrition (4)
AGR317 Soils (4)
AGR321 Agricultural Finance (3)
AGR405 Farm Management (4)
CHM211 Principles of Chemistry I (4)
From the following four categories, choose 23 hours, including 14 hours at the 300- or 400- level.
Required: two courses from the following:
AGR322 Commodity Marketing (3)
AGR445 Agricultural Policy (3)
MGT407 Business Law (3)
Required: three courses from the following:
ACC201 Principles of Accounting I (3)
ACC202 Principles of Accounting II* (3)
ECO102 Principles of Economics II (3)
ECO341 Business Statistics I* (3)
MKT205 Introduction to Marketing (3)
MGT211 Introduction to Management (3)
MGT315 Personal Selling and Sales Management* (3)
MGT325 Entrepreneurship* (3)
MGT333 Human Resource Management* (3)
MGT409 Corporate Finance* (3)
PSY329 Organizational Behavior* (3)
Required: one course from the following:
AGR115 Fundamentals of Horticulture (4)
AGR209 Soil Conservation (3)
AGR219 World Food (3)
AGR300 Weed Control (3)
AGR325 Soil Fertility (3)
AGR407 Forage and Grain Crop Production (4)
Required: one course from the following:
AGR210 Meat Animal Science (3)
AGR305 Sheep Science (4)
AGR306 Livestock Evaluation and Judging (3)
AGR312 Animal Nutrition* (4)
AGR314 Swine Science (4)
AGR315 Beef Production (4)
AGR316 Dairy Science (4)
EQS300 Equine Health and Disease (3)
*prerequisites required.