CLASSES

Covers the basic principles of agribusiness sales. Topics include recognizing potential customers, building a positive customer relationship, designing sales plans, and using market and sales databases. The concepts will be presented using hands-on activities. Students will complete a sales project and presentation.

Provides fundamental knowledge of the animal science field. Topics include animal health, animal environments, anatomy and physiology, genetics and reproduction, animal feedstuffs, and job-related safety. Students will experience animal concepts through the completion of hands-on activities.

Covers the fundamentals of animal science with an emphasis on livestock industries. Topics include animal anatomy and physiology, genetics, reproduction, nutrition, safety, and biotechnology. Students explore the structure and characteristics of the beef, dairy, swine, sheep, goat, and equine industries.

Spend a morning on the farm!  In this course, you’ll learn about keeping chickens, ducks and turkeys.  Topics covered will include benefits of raising backyard poultry, legal considerations, basic care, and health and biosecurity.  You’ll also observe a demonstration of safe poultry handling, feeding and watering routines, and observing for illness.

Focuses on beef production systems. Students will evaluate the foundational principles of modern beef production including beef cattle breeds, breeding beef cattle, nutrition, herd health and commercial herd and feedlot management. Connection between different production systems and markets will help users gain basic knowledge of production economics.

Provides intermediate beekeeping instruction and is intended for those who have been keeping bees for at least a year; the course builds upon content from our Beginning Beekeeping class.  Students in this course will learn about colony management in year two and beyond, including various ways to do a split, requeening, swarming, conducting an autopsy on a dead hive, varroa mite monitoring, mite management including treatment options, and overwintering of bees.

Teaches students about the anatomy and physiology of cattle reproduction and artificial insemination of the bovine species. Topics include estrous cycle and reproductive records management, nutrition, animal fertility, herd health and sire selection. Site visits will be used to practice estrous detection, insemination techniques and computer analysis.

Covers the herd health and reproductive systems of the dairy and livestock animals. The class will cover various herd health problems, including mastitis, milk fever, and similar common livestock health problems. A herd health and reproductive management program will be developed.

Acquaints the students with herd management programs using traditional and computerized herd record keeping systems. Students will have hands-on experience with the latest available programs used in dairy record keeping.

Acquaints students with the general use, safety, laws, and regulations for chemical application in Wisconsin. Completion of the Wisconsin Commercial Applicators Certification is an optional portion of the course. Identification of the major weeds and other pests found in Wisconsin crop lands is emphasized.