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Course Syllabus

AGTM 1050 Farm Machinery Management

  • Division: Business and Applied Tech
  • Department: Business
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 2; Lab: 2
  • Semesters Offered: Fall
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2023
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2028
  • End Semester: Fall 2028
  • Optimum Class Size: 20
  • Maximum Class Size: 25

Course Description

This course prepares students to analyze the factors that comprise safe machinery management and operation and to explain the function of various machines and mechanisms. Students will learn machinery operation, farm machinery safety, procedures for diagnosing machinery problems, and processes for making machinery management decisions.

Justification

Growth in the Precision Agriculture industry requires the addition of a Farm Machinery Management course which requires that students be trained in the maintenance, management, and operation of agricultural machinery. Sophisticated advancements in technology on agricultural machinery are contributing to the demand for farm machinery mechanics and the skills they can provide. This class will prepare students to enter the workforce with the basic knowledge and understanding to be successful. This course will prepare students for more advanced courses in Agriculture Technology/Mechanics, as well as the Agricultural Systems and Technology degree offered at Utah State University.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. As a result of taking this course, students will: Understand the economic performance of farm machinery.
  2. As a result of taking this course, students will: Complete the requirements for Utah Farm Machinery Safety training.
  3. As a result of taking this course, students will: Understand the costs associated with farm machinery.
  4. As a result of taking this course, students will: Students will select equipment for use on the college farm.
  5. As a result of taking this course, students will: Identify farm machines and understand basic machinery operations and use.

Course Content

Course objectives will be accomplished by providing students with the following learning experiences: machine operation and safety training; machine performance, power performance, and operator performance; use principles of cost determination in depreciation, inflation, interest, and variable costs; identify tillage, cultivation, seeding, chemical application, harvesting, processing, and handling machines; engine principles, mechanisms, power, and maintenance; machinery selection, power selection, and use of machinery.