For each unit of credit, a minimum of three hours per week with one of the hours for class and two hours for studying/preparation outside of class is expected.
The agriculture program at SCCC provides opportunities to further each student’s knowledge of and skills in agricultural operations.
Outcome #1: Read with comprehension, be critical of what they read, and apply knowledge gained from their reading to broader issues of the day.
Outcome #2: Communicate ideas clearly and proficiently in writing, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations.
Outcome #5: Demonstrate the ability to think critically by gathering facts, generating insights, analyzing data, and evaluating information.
- Complete a wide range of mathematical problems that will relate to agricultural production and management.
- Illustrate the role and importance of farm and ranch management
- Develop decision-making skills
- Achieve a basic understanding of marginal analysis, and cost concepts in economics.
- Develop skills in enterprise, partial, and whole farm budgeting.
- Prepare a balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, operating statement, and loan documentation.
- Analyze the above statements by calculating financial ratios that relate to financial health.
- Develop skills in investment analysis with an emphasis on land ownership.
- Differentiate between the different forms of business organization and how they are taxed.
- Evaluate different types of loans and identify sources of credit available in the Ag Industry.
- Management
- Measuring Management Performance
- Applying Economic Principles
- Budgeting for Greater Profit
- Improving Management Skills
- Acquiring Resources for Management
- Lecture and Discussion
- Worksheets and handouts
- Computer programs
- Guest speakers
- Presentations/Projects
- K.S.U. Farm Management Guides
- Agricultural Mathematics, 2nd ed.
- Agricultural magazines and newspapers
- Internet Sites including USDA and Cattle Fax
- SCCC Outcome #1 will be assessed and measured by final exam grades.
- SCCC Outcome #2 will be assessed and measured by farm business plans submitted as the course’s final project.
- SCCC Outcome #5 will be assessed and measured by farm business plans submitted as the course’s final project.
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