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UNE unit code: AGRO500
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Unit information
This unit provides you with an advanced set of professional skills applied in the practical farming context for best management and sustainable practice.
You will build on existing competencies in crop physiology, paddock setup, soil management and farming system analysis to determine the complex and long term implications of decisions made in industry. You will learn about a range of contemporary challenges in farming systems and evaluate the agronomic solutions to these problems.
The benefits and implications of long term rotational strategies (such as regenerative management and agricultural chemical resistance or accumulation) are explored along with strategies for risk management in farming system design for a changing climate.
You will gain industry focused skills to scientifically evaluate and make evidence based recommendations to industry and decision makers around agronomic management strategies.
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There are no intensive schools required for this unit.
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Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the implications management strategies have on enterprise and environmental sustainability;
- describe and assess agronomic risk management strategies and planning for different potential climates;
- demonstrate an understanding of management strategies for maintaining the utility of agricultural resources such as agricultural chemicals and cultivars; and
- demonstrate a range of manipulative, observational, interpretive, written and graphical communication skills in order to transmit information to others.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
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Assignment 1 | Yes | 30% | All offerings | Problem Based Learning assignment. Briefly answer Problem Based Learning scenarios related to topic areas. No. Words: 1500 (equivalent) |
Future Farming System | Yes | 35% | All offerings | Assignment including climate scenarios to manage production risk in agronomic plans. No. Words: 2000 (equivalent) |
Oral examination of prepared scenarios | Yes | 35% | All offerings | Oral examination of analysis of pre prepared case study scenarios. No. Words: 2000 (equivalent) |
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