Agriculture Online Continuing Education
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Stephanie Kot
Agricultural Sciences Continuing Education
stephanie.kot@lakelandcollege.ca
780 581 4234
Grow your knowledge and skills by taking one, or all of our online agriculture courses. These courses are designed for anyone to take including both producers and extension professionals.
Our online courses are created with your busy lifestyle in mind. They will require on average 3-5 hours per week and can be done whenever is convenient for you!
Courses that Lakeland offers are outlined below. Check those you are interested in for a brief description and see if they are currently open for registration.
This course is comprehensive online review of the critical aspects of program planning, particularly for extension work.
You’ll work through 7 modules:
- History, Foundations and Fundamentals
- Situational Analysis
- Needs Assessment
- Outcomes & Objectives
- Design the Program
- The Delivery Phase
- Evaluation of Program Effectiveness and Accountability
Course length: 15 weeks to complete all modules
Total hours: 40 - 60 hours
Cost: $838.95 (includes GST)
Delivery: online
Prerequisite: none
This course is an overview of Integrated Crop Management (ICM). The emphasis is on the importance of integration across all of the disciplines critical for crop production. Soil and plant science, while not the foundation of this course, will be included where necessary in the course work.
You'll learn:
- the principles of ICM
- how ICM systems function
- current methods and technologies required for practical and efficient ICM
There are 7 modules in the course:
- Agronomic Practices & Crop Establishment
- Tillage Systems
- Crop Rotation
- Yield Building with Crop Genetics
- Yield Building with Fertilizers
- Yield Protection
- Precision Farming
Course length: 11 weeks to complete all modules
Total hours: 40 - 60 hours
Cost: $780 (GST included)
Delivery: online
Prerequisite: none
This online course covers understanding, managing and planning for optimal nutrient benefits.
You will:
- review the components of nutrient management plants
- examine the Agricultural Operations Practices Act (AOPA) and how it affects you
- look at the importance of soil testing
- learn how to understand the economic potential of a field
- review manure collection, storing and treatment
- study the nutrient content of manure
- investigate appropriate times to apply manure and fertilizer
- explore transporting manure and fertilizer
- delve into appropriate manure and fertilizer rates to get desired crop productivity
The course has 10 units:
- Fundamentals of Soil Nutrients and Plant Interactions
- Fundamentals of Manure and Fertilizer as Nutrient Sources
- Alberta's Agricultural Operations Practices Act (AOPA) and Manure Management
- Soil Sampling and Soil Sample Analysis
- Assessing Fields for Nutrient Application
- Storing, Treating & Managing Livestock Manure
- Manure Sampling and Interpretation
- Nutrient Application for Methods and Best Management Practices
- Manure and Fertilizer Handling Safety & Emergency Planning
- Calculating Nutrient Requirements and Applications Rates
Course length: 15 weeks to complete
Total hours: 50 - 60 hours to complete all units
Cost: $780 (GST included)
Delivery: online
Prerequisite: none
This course is a comprehensive online review of perennial forage agronomy as it pertains
to the agriculture retail sector. It will provide you with basic understanding of
customer needs and provide reference materials to help you support customers in selecting
products and management practices needed to improve their forage production.
You’ll work through 3 modules:
- Seed Selection
- Establishment
- Fertility
Course length: 7 weeks to complete all modules
Total hours: approximately 20 hours
Cost: $699 (includes GST)
Delivery: online
Prerequisite: none
This course will take a detailed look at:
- planning winter feeding sites
- rationing nutrients for animals
- pasture plans and grazing management strategies for tame and native pastures
- selecting tame forage species
- riparian area management
You’ll study 3 modules:
- Winter Feeding
- Tame Pasture Management
- Riparian Area Management
Course length: self-paced; 7 weeks to complete all modules
Total hours: approximately 20 - 23 hours
Cost: $680 (GST included)
Delivery: online
Prerequisite: n/a