The two-year Business - Agriculture Ontario College Diploma program combines agriculture with business and management training, providing you with the skills necessary to successfully operate a farming operation or to provide services to agricultural businesses. Agriculture is an increasingly complex industry, with sophisticated agribusiness managers required to make decisions about crop/herd selection and improvement, pest and soil management, equipment maintenance, farm safety, and agricultural production.

Agriculture is an increasingly complex industry, with sophisticated agribusiness managers required to make decisions about crop/herd selection and improvement, pest and soil management, farm safety, and agricultural production.

The Diploma will obtain fundamental knowledge about the AgriFoodtech ecosystem, the development of new technologies and their impact and sustainable implementation in the agricultural and food chain.

The agricultural sector is one of the fundamental pillars of the economy and represents the main source of food for the world's population. However, it faces a great challenge: producing more and better while increasing sustainability with a reasonable use of natural resources, reducing environmental degradation and adapting to climate change.

Diploma in Agribusiness isn't just a career path for someone with a rural background.You'll start with a common first semester. This overview allows you to confirm or change your stream choice. You'll dive deeper into your interest area over the next 3 semesters. As well, in 2nd year you'll choose between an agribusiness practicum and a business or case analysis project.

The Agribusiness Technology curriculum is designed to provide the entrepreneurial and technical skills necessary to manage a profitable, environmentally sound, community based small farm or agricultural business. The objective is the development of a workforce knowledgeable in sustainable agriculture practices.

Melbourne Polytechnic’s Diploma of Agriculture will train you in vital agricultural business skills and practical techniques, such as budgeting, production planning, climate risk strategies, animal husbandry and long-term crop management.

Students in our Agricultural Management program will develop a foundation of business skills, including communication, accounting, and marketing strategies informed by surveying global and local policy facing the agricultural industry. You will be exposed to the advancement of agricultural technology, from accounting software to farm machinery. You will gain an environmental understanding of the production of food, feed, fuel and fiber, livestock physiology and health, and the global issues that are currently impacting the industry.

The Diploma of Production Horticulture course reflects the role of personnel working on production horticulture farms.