FREC201 or ACCT207 and a statistics course. FREC150 or ECON151. FREC 435 Microcomputer Use in Agricultural Economics 3 Microcomputer systems and their use and application in contemporary agricultural economics problems. 441 Futures and Options Markets 4 Analysis of futures and options markets of agricultural and nonagricultural commodities. Hedging and speculative theory and techniques, cash and futures price relationships.
Students trade commodities via a satellite information system.
FREC150 or ECON151. FREC150 or ECON151. FREC 464 Agricultural Economics Field Experience 1-3 Supervised field work in farm management, food retailing management, agricultural wholesaling or processing management, natural resource analysis, rural development, agricultural policy analysis or related areas. A maximum of three credits may be applied to the B.S. in Agriculture with a major in Agricultural Business Management or Agricultural Economics. FREC 465 Seminar 1 Oral and written reports in the subdisciplines of food and resource economics.