Learn from a team of Experts

What matters is the knowledge you retain when your studies finish, and your capacity to keep learning and applying what you learn in different and often unforeseen contexts you encounter long after you cease being a student.

The qualification you receive may help you kick start a career, but this ability to apply knowledge and keep growing as a agriculture professional is what makes the biggest difference to your long term career or farming success.

We provide the support of a whole team of experts to support you as a student.

We treat every student as the unique individual that they are, with only one goal to improve your capacity in agronomy.

This qualification is ideal for anyone wanting to learn about agronomy.

• No prerequisites for this course.
• Enrol at any time and start any time.
• Flexible online study.
• Spend the time you need to understand the materials.
• Apply the learning on-farm through tasks and activities.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How Practical is this Course?
Lessons involve field work/set tasks and assignments that call for you to engage with the real world beyond the work you undertake at the work desk. This course involves much more practical work than what some people may expect from an online yours. You will be visiting places, making observation, having discussions and learning through research and building networks of contacts in industry.

Is this course relevant to my local conditions?
Yes. Our academic team includes experts who have worked a wide variety of climates from wet tropics and arid places to cool and cold temperate places. The courses are all developed to accommodate whatever situation you are in, and the tutors mark and return assignments with consideration of your local circumstances.

What are the Career Prospects after this Course?

There are endless opportunities for anyone with a passion and persistence to succeed in farming.

• Apply for jobs - in agronomic services or supplies e.g. irrigation, seed, fertiliser, machinery 
• Find a job in farming.
• Continue learning - volunteering, studying, joining organisations, attending shows, seminars or other events
• Start a farm - small or large.

This course is suitable for different people including:

• Farmers
• Agronomists
• Smallholders
• Landowners
• Growers
• Anyone with an interest in growing crops.

Enrol to master agronomy and begin making a difference to how crops are grown.

Develop advanced skills in a broad range of agronomy tasks

Study this course to:

• Understand soil health and quality or degradation.
• Determine soil nutrient requirements and management.
• Master irrigation management and system design.
• Develop cropping systems, including rotations.
• Understand crop genetics, quality and diversity.
• Implement suitable crop protection strategies.
• Explain harvesting of a wide variety of crops.
• Manage soils and the tools needed for agronomic farming.

Benefits of this course:

• Become more aware of opportunities for employment, career advancement, and business development in agronomy.
• Broaden the scope of your knowledge - grain, root, oil, fibre, and legume crop production.