312144 (v.1) Agricultural Production Systems 201

Area:	Department of Agribusiness and Wine Science
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	5.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Seminar:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork:	1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s):	303220 (v.4) Food Chain Systems 101 AND 309728 (v.3) Land Resources 101
Syllabus:	Application of scientific principles to animal and crop production as integrated and separate systems. Impacts of animals on soil-crop system, precision agriculture and decision-making, key decisions around annual farm calendar (e.g.joining, summer feeding, preparation for lambing; seeding, and post-seeding management). Information will be delivered in the context of the animal production and crop production year. Students need to demonstrate completion of ten weeks work experience in an agriculture or equine industry of their choice. The unit will incorporate design of a class experiment and attending local Crop Updates. Students will also undertake fieldwork.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	050101 Agricultural Science
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Northam Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External