The Doctor Ph.D. Degree in Farm Management at Bircham International University reviews strategies to keep a farm productive and profitable. It combines agricultural economics topics such as prices, markets, agricultural policy, and financial needs with plant and animal sciences topics such as soils, seed, and fertilizer, and control of weeds, insects, and disease, including rations and breeding. It also uses agricultural engineering for farm production processing, machinery, irrigation, crop drying, drainage, and farming control systems.
This program is delivered online via distance learning. The structure is 70% textbooks and 30% thesis. The program requires 45 to 72 academic credits, including Farm Management Online and research methodology and a final project or thesis. An academic supervisor is listed as John Stanley Bircham. Fees include the program of study, textbooks, study guide, evaluation and assessment, diploma, and transcript.
Modules
- Farm Management Online
- Research methodology and final project or thesis