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Course description

This course will introduce students to the fundamental principles of agronomy and crop production. In both a classroom and field setting, this will include a bigger picture exploration of cropping zones in Australia, and move onto a "ground up" approach of crop production. Topics covered will include importance of healthy soils in sustainable production, tillage, crop rotations, management of soil water and crop nutrition, and genotype x environment x management interactions. The course should provide students with a good foundation of the key factors driving crop production in cropping and mixed farming businesses. Learning from lecture material will be expanded upon and applied in industry-relevant scenario-based tutorials. These will develop students¿ numeracy skills so they are ready to handle the quantitative nature of agronomy upon graduation. The in-person mode of the course will also complement these learning activities with extensive hands-on experience in the field, including crop monitoring, soil and plant sampling, and quantifying soil resources.

This course will be last offered in external mode in 2025.

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