Concepts are illustrated in terms of selected current social and economic issues in the industry of production agriculture, agricultural business, and the computer application of those concepts. An introduction to the use of computers in agribusiness applications with emphasis on mastering word processing, spreadsheet, graphics and financial software, statistics and mathematical programming.
Course includes the use of computer gaming techniques for instruction in agribusiness.
Comp Sci 201 or permission of instructor. Topics may be chosen from, but are not restricted to, production, marketing, management, policy, finance, and resource economics. Taught only by arrangement prior to registration. Historical development and current characteristics of commodity, credit, food, trade, environmental, and natural resource policy. Relationship between domestic and international agricultural and environmental policy.