Quick Facts

Agribusiness

Learn:

Study basic business and agricultural through accounting, economics, agronomy, salesmanship and sales management, marketing, communications and organizational behavior. Then, choose from one of three streams of study—financial, crops or livestock—to focus your career goals. You’ll be workforce ready for entry level management positions with agribusinesses, with agricultural agencies, or with banks or financial institutions working with agricultural and business clients.

Live The Learning:

Use Excel to create budgets and financial statements and an accounting program to manage farm records. Practice marketing crop and livestock commodities. On the crops side, learn to use GPS to map fields and combine with your learning about soils, crops and fertilizers. On the livestock side, create rations and learn more about feedlot and swine management.

The Lakeland Advantage:

Choose a specialized stream of study to put you where you want to be.
Use your learning to compete in the annual Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Business Planning Awards competition.
Use your diploma as a spring board to further education.

Live Your Career As A

retail sales in agricultural chemicals, grain, feed & equipment companies
entry level management with agribusinesses, banks, financial instutituions and agriculture agencies
office manager with a bank, financial institution or agricultural agency
run your own business

Continue Your Learning With:

Add another diploma from Lakeland College in another year. Choose another agricultural or business program.
University of Lethbridge--two years to complete a degree in agriculture
University of Alberta and University of Saskatchewan--partial credit towards a bachelor’s degree in agriculture
Athabasca University--several options for a bachelor’s degree including course work at Lakeland’s Lloydminster campus

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Campus Location
Vermilion Campus

Program Length
2 Years

Current Project

Holy Cow! Anatomy lab gets a new skeleton

A cow from the college herd that died on pasture has a new life as a skeletal structure in the small animal clinic lab. At the time of the bovine�s untimely demise, animal health technology students deboned the carcass and shipped it to the University of Alberta to be put into a bug box. Once inside, scavengers set to work removing all remaining flesh. Once this was done, the skeleton was cleaned, bleached and returned to Lakeland for assembly. Charged with the task was Ken Smith with the help of Neale King and Barry Gordey who built a metal frame for the structure. While the process to incorporate the specimen into the college�s teaching facilities was lengthy, it has resulted in a considerable savings to the college. The cost of a similar skeleton from a medical supply house is approximately $10,000. That's a lot of moo-la!