Iowa Lakes Community College

Current Students | Future Students | Academic Programs | Alumni & Foundations | Online Services | FAQs | Directories | A-Z Index
IOWA LAKES > Registrar's Office > Catalog Course Descriptions > Agriculture-Farm Management  (AGB)

 
 AGRICULTURE-FARM MANAGEMENT (AGB)


AGB-101   Ag Economics & Management, 3 cr.
Economics principles applied to decision making in agribusiness.  Resource allocation based on production and cost analysis.  Theories of production, consumption, and pricing.  Supply and demand.  Management strategies for purse and imperfect competition. 
(Formerly AB-233A)
                                                                        

AGB-109   Intro to Human Relations, 2 cr. 
Course designed to help the students understand themselves and their potential customers, includes employer-employee relationships, human relations in agribusiness and fundamentals of advertising. 
(Formerly AG-112A)

AGB-110   Human Relations I, 2 cr.
Introduction to topics which relate to beginning farming in a family farm environment.  Topics include personality, family relationships, decision making and social relations as they apply to everyday living and working in an on-going family operation.
(Formerly AG-102A)                                                                        

AGB-194   Beginning Sales, 2 cr.
Basic selling techniques, with emphasis on retail selling, role playing in sales situations and video playback critique.
(Formerly AB-117A)                                                                         

AGB-210   Agricultural Law, 2 cr.
Introduction to business law which interprets the rights and social forces of business, society, government and contracts.
(Formerly AB-225A)                                                                        

AGB-281   Computerized Agricultural Accounting, 1 cr.
Preparation for using a versatile computerized farm accounting system. 
(Formerly AG-241A)

AGB-307   Begin Accounting, 2 cr. 
Covers the theory of double entry accounting, including the use of journals, ledgers, balance sheets and profit and loss statements. 
(Formerly AB-218C)

AGB-308   Farm Machinery Mgt Lab, 1 cr.
An individualized lab for students concurrently enrolled in AD222A.  Students explore programs for their own farm operations using software programs for machinery replacement strategies and the integrated crop management database. 
(Formerly AD-221A)                                                                        

AGB-309   Farm Machinery Mgmt, 2 cr.
Fitting power and machinery needs to specific farming operations to obtain efficiency through various analysis methods for decision-making.   
(Formerly AD-222A)                                                                         

AGB-327   Principles of Farm Business Management, 2 cr.
Current principles and practices of farm  management.  Production enterprise budgets, partial budgets and cash flow budgets are explored. 
(Formerly AD-230A)                                                                            

AGB-339   Intro to Ad Layout, 1 cr.
The opportunity of students to define, understand and actually make advertising layouts. 
(Formerly  AB-111A)                                                                      

AGB-340   Advertising, 1 cr.
Introduction to advertising as well as an understanding of the use of the various media. 
(Formerly AB-139A)                                                                         

AGB-343   Office Procedure, 2 cr.
Course is designed to outline business procedures necessary to operate an agribusiness:  sales receipts, bank drafts and other business forms. 
(Formerly AB-132C)

AGB-435   Intro to Grain/Commodity Mktg, 3 cr.
Introduces the basic elements of cash grain marketing and then introduces futures markets. 
(Formerly AD-123A)

AGB-436   Grain Merchandising, 2 cr.
Studies livestock and grain futures marketing methods including product quality, methods and options.
(Formerly AD-219A - Adv Marketing)                                                  

AGB-437   Commodity Marketing, 3 cr.
Introduction to the commodity futures markets, with information on contract specifications, exchanges, basic trading information, and fundamental and technical market information.
(Formerly AB-133A)                                                                        

AGB-438   Ag Futures & Future Options, 2 cr.
This course is designed to build on the Intro to Marketing course and will cover topics to include, basis, merchandising, grain settlements, daily position reports, and hedging.
(Formerly AD-212A - Commodity Marketing II)                                    

AGB-439   Commodity Marketing Lab, 1 cr.
Strategies to increase proficiency in commodity and option marketing.  Includes knowledge needed to sit for the Series 3 National Futures Examination.
 Prerequisites:  AGB-437 and AGB-438   
(Formerly AB-211C) 

AGB-466   Agricultural Finance, 3 cr.
Studies the sources and uses of farm credit to maximize farm income.  Balance sheets, income statements and cost of financing options are a critical component of this class.  
(Formerly AD-216A)                                                                       

AGB-930   Agriculture Seminar, 2 cr.
A study of current problems in agribusiness marketing.
(Formerly AB-222C)
                                        

   

Welcome to Iowa Lakes Community College

Copyright © 1996 - 2008 by Iowa Lakes Community College. All rights reserved.
Campuses in Algona, Emmetsburg, EsthervilleSpencer and Spirit Lake.
If you would like us to mail you information, please complete this request form
Questions or comments? Please email us at info@iowalakes.edu or call (712) 362-2604 or 1-800-521-5054.
Equal Opportunity Statement