Agribusiness Management

Construction is underway for our new facility containing laboratories specializing in soils, botany, and animal anatomy and physiology. A 5,300-square-foot greenhouse will also produce hydroponic vegetables and herbs and contains a tropical room, a desert room, and plant propagation areas.

The farm serves as a field laboratory to provide practical instruction in production agriculture and to produce feed for the college’s livestock. It is home to registered dairy and beef herds, horses, swine, poultry, sheep, and meat goats used for instruction in animal care and management. The farm is also used for soils, botany, feeds, and nutrition, and field and forage crops classes. Students have the opportunity to work on the farm as interns. Other facilities there focus on high-tunnel vegetable production, row crop production, and agroforestry practices.

The center, located at the college farm, features an organic dairy herd with which students gain experience in management intensive grazing and a robotic milking system. Other facilities include a 300-acre farm in Sonyea, where we produce forages.

This state-of-the-art facility includes surgical and radiography laboratories, a classroom area for Introduction to veterinary technology, animal health care and laboratory animal management laboratories, and animal housing facilities.