种植有利可图，健康的大田作物，如小麦，玉米或大麦，是一门复杂的科学，需要了解微生物学，昆虫学，工程学，商业和许多其他领域。该计划提供了广泛的知识来成功种植农作物。您将探索土壤，杂草，植物育种，微生物，昆虫和其他与植物生长有关的领域。您还将学习先进的生长技术，例如生物技术和全球定位系统（GPS）。您的大部分教育工作都在校园内的温室和实验室中进行，您可以在其中将水母基因插入烟草中，使其在黑暗中发光，从油菜籽中提取生物柴油，并通过嫁接产生马铃薯-番茄双重植物。
Our world's expanding need for food and energy sources requires professionals who have the expertise to manage and produce high-yield, high-quality crops. This program combines the study of applied crop production and management, giving you the broad-based knowledge to grow successful crops. You will explore soils, weeds, plant breeding, microbes, insects and other areas related to plant growth. You will also study advanced growing techniques, like biotechnology and global positioning systems (GPS).<br><br>Much of your education takes place in the on-campus greenhouses and in the lab, where you might insert a jellyfish gene into tobacco to make it glow in the dark, produce biodiesel from canola seeds and create a dual potato-tomato plant through grafting.