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You'll study crop health, animal health, agri-supply chains, agri-business economics and sustainability.

We’ll also introduce you to lab work and IT applications. You’ll use these skills to apply statistical techniques to understand and capitalise on information from agricultural data.

Your visits to our commercial farms with their cutting edge field trials and research enable you to apply and extend your knowledge.

Modules

Compulsory Modules Credits
Crop Health 10
Introduction to Business Management 10
Agri-Food Supply Chains 10
Animal Health 10
Sustainability in Practice 20
Introductory Business Economics 10
Academic and Professional Skills 20
Introduction to Sustainability 20
Plants, Environment, Agriculture 10

Apply your knowledge to animal and crop husbandry and farm management. We’ll study animal breeding, arable crop production and agricultural markets.

A consultancy style 'Dragon's Den pitch' type module is an exciting group project where commercial sponsors pose a sustainability challenges for a team of multidisciplinary students to devise solutions.

We’ll continue to visit farms and other enterprises, so you can put your learning into practice.

Modules

Compulsory Modules Credits
Arable Crops 10
Farm Business Management 10
Principles of Agronomy and Crop Improvement 10
Animal Feed Science and Technology 10
Domestic Animal Reproduction and Genetic Improvement 10
Sustainable animal production systems 20
Agricultural Economics and Policy 10
Global Agri-Food Supply Chains 10
Dissertation and Research Preparation 10
Soil and Ecosystem Science 10
Sustainable Solutions 10

You will explore management techniques used for decision-making in agricultural businesses. Your core modules will develop your skills in farm planning, land law, budgeting and accounting.

You’ll also produce a dissertation on a farm business management topic of your choice. Projects and case studies will form a major component of your management modules. There are workshops and demonstrations of software used in planning and control.

Modules

Compulsory Modules Credits
Law and Land Use 10
Farm Business Consultancy 20
Applied Farm Business Management 20
Dissertation 30
Optional Modules Credits
Career Development for final year students 20
Qualitative Research Methods 10
Crops 20
Applied Crop Protection 10
Agronomy Field Course 10
Animal Science Conference - Current Issues and Debates 20
Reproduction in Farm and Companion Animals 10
Your Future - occupational awareness 10
Animal Welfare and Behaviour 20
Agritech & Precision Farming 10
Countryside Management 20
Planning the Global Countryside 20
Sustainable Development and Environmental Valuation 10