The following is a list of ABE undergraduate courses; the course number is first, followed by credit hours in parentheses, the course title, and a short description of the class.

204 (3): Introduction to Agricultural Economics. Agriculture in local and national economy; distribution; size and organization of the farm business units; policies affecting agriculture.

257 (1-10): Work Experience. Credit for on-campus work experience through a cooperative program developed between the Department and the Office of Student Work and Financial Assistance. Prerequisite: consent of Chair. Mandatory Pass/Fail.

258 (1-30): Past Work Experience. Credit for career related employment based on the evaluation of the documentation of this experience by the Department of Agribusiness Economics. No grade for past work experience. Prerequisite: consent of Chair.

302 (2): Country Living Management and Information. Managing a small acreage as an avocation. Types of decision problems and sources of information.

318 (3): Agribusiness Statistical Methods. Statistical methods applied to agribusiness economics, including survey design, sampling, graphic presentation of data, index numbers, statistical inference, basic linear regression and correlation.

333 (3): Professional Agriselling. Focuses on professional agriselling and the sales process. Topics include different methods of selling, steps and techniques in the selling process, customer service, sales ethics, consumer behavior concepts and sales management. Critical skills of self-management, communication, and interpersonal values are examined. Opportunities of a career in agriselling are surveyed.

340 (3): Food and Agricultural Policy. An economic analysis of the structure, problems, and alternative public policies of the food production industry. Emphasis on price, income, foreign trade, and development policies. Prerequisite: 204 or consent of instructor.

350 (3): Farm Management. Efficient organization and management of a farming operation. Emphasis on crop and livestock selection, management of farm resources, farm budgets and records analysis, and farm leases. Student will incur field trip expenses not to exceed $5. Prerequisite: 204 or one course in economics.

351 (3): Financial Management in Agriculture. Analysis of the capital structure of agriculture and sources of capital. Credit analysis of agribusiness firms using financial statements, firm growth, capital budgeting, and tax considerations. Prerequisite: 204 or equivalent.

359 (1- 6): Intern Program. Supervised work experience program in either an agricultural agency of the government or agribusiness. Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Mandatory Pass/Fail.

360 (3): Cooperatives and Agribusiness Management. Problems and practices in agribusiness operation including forms of organization, alternative organization and structure impacts on decision-making, tools of decision-making, financial analysis and methods of improving the effectiveness of the marketing system. Prerequisite: 204 or equivalent.

361 (2): Distribution in Agribusiness. The nature of agribusiness distribution, opportunities to improve the effectiveness of the distribution system through an understanding of the function involved. Prerequisite: 204 or equivalent.

362 (3): Marketing and Pricing Agricultural Products. Institutional arrangements in marketing agricultural products. Market structure, marketing costs, and alternative methods of pricing agricultural products are also examined. Prerequisite: 204 or equivalent.

363 (3): Commodity Futures Market. The mechanics of futures market trading, a description of institutions, technical and fundamental analysis, speculation, hedging, spreading, and market risk. Agricultural commodities, exchange rates, and financial instruments are considered.

381 (1-4): Agricultural Seminar. Discussion of special topics and/or problems in the field of agribusiness economics. Prerequisite: junior standing and consent of Department.

388 (1-16): International Studies. Course work undertaken as a part of an approved University residential study program abroad. May be taken for a maximum of eight semester hours per semester and may be repeated for a maximum of 16 semester hours. Prerequisite: major Department or program approval.

390 (1-4): Special Studies in Agribusiness Economics. Assignments involving research and individual problems. Field trips. Prerequisite: consent of Chair.

391 (1-4): Honors Program in Agribusiness Economics. Completion of honors paper or comparable project under the supervision of one or more faculty members. Subject matter depends upon the needs and interests of the student. Prerequisite: junior, GPA 3.0 with a 3.25 in major; approval of staff member, Department Chair.

401 (3): Agricultural Law. Relations of common-law principles and statutory law to land tenure, farm tenancy, farm labor, farm management, taxation, and other problems involving agriculture. Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.

402 (1-6): Problems in Agribusiness Economics. Designed to improve the techniques of agribusiness economics workers through discussion, assignment, and special workshops on problems related to their field. Emphasis will be placed on new innovative and currently developed techniques for the field. Prerequisite: consent of Chair.

419 (3): Agribusiness Economic Applications of Information Technology. Students will gain experience in applying information technology to a range of agribusiness-economic applications in the subject areas of record keeping, management, finance and marketing. Students will gain additional experience by integrating these applications in the development of a business plan. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: 350 or 351 or 360 and General Agriculture 318 or equivalent.

440 (3): Land Resource Economics. The use of land as an economic variable in production of goods and services; land markets; public versus private land use conflicts; and land-use planning in an institutional setting. Prerequisite: 12 hours of agricultural economics or economics credit, or graduate status or consent of instructor.

444 (3): Agricultural Development. Analysis of the economic, social, political, cultural, and institutional factors related to economic growth and development in agricultural sector. Framework for evaluating outcome of alternative strategies in agricultural production, marketing, and government policies that affect output, income distribution, and resource use in agriculture and the related agroindustrial complex. Prerequisite: 204.

450 (3): Advanced Farm Management. Application of production economic principles and modern decision-making techniques to farm management problems. The importance of information, sources of agricultural risk and management of risk in farm planning will be integrated. Prerequisite: 350 or equivalent and Mathematics required.

451 (2): Farm Real Estate Appraisal. Principles and practices of farm real estate appraisal. Application of capitalization, market, and cost approaches for estimating market value. Understanding of special valuation methods used for buildings, insurance, assessments, loans, and condemnation. Field trips not to exceed $10. Prerequisite: 350 or consent of instructor.

453 (3): Agribusiness Planning Techniques. Application of mathematical programming to agribusiness and farm planning, including enterprise selection, resource allocation, lease cost ration formulation, decision-making under risk and uncertainty, transportation and location problems. Emphasis placed on modeling problems and interpretation of results. Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.

460 (3): Agricultural Prices. Measurement and interpretation of factors affecting agricultural prices. Construction of index numbers, trend analysis, seasonal and cyclical price movements and the measurement of relationships between price and other variables. Prerequisite: 362 or equivalent.

461 (3): Agriculture Business Management. Examination of agribusiness firms management with emphasis on the management and control of financial resources and the interrelationship between the agribusiness firm and human resource management. Other topics in agribusiness will include effective communication in the management process, business ethics, and workable credit programs for customers. Prerequisite: 351 and 360 or equivalent.

462 (3): Advanced Agricultural Marketing. Advanced treatment of marketing issues from both theoretical and practical decision-making perspectives. Marketing margins, intertemporal, and spatial price relationships are reviewed in detail. Historical and current grain and livestock price series are utilized in decision-making exercises. Prerequisite: 362 or equivalent.