Agricultural Business
This field of study equips you with the business, management and hands-on skills you need.
- Degree
- Associate of Applied Science
- Program Type
-
Career-Oriented Degrees
- Pathway
- Business
- Additional Program Option
- Hybrid
- Credits
- 60
Grow your future
SUNY Adirondack's Agricultural Business program studies business and science. Focused topics plant the seeds for your success within the field of farm and food systems. Each student completes an internship, further reinforcing classroom concepts with real-world applications. Graduating students might start agricultural businesses or manage workforces in agriculture-related fields. Students can also transfer to a bachelor's degree program in a compatible field.
Educational growth
SUNY Adirondack's Agricultural Business degree program prepares students for transfer to SUNY Cobleskill.
Careers in Agricultural Business
The Farm@ADK
The Farm grows a variety of mixed vegetables, herbs, flowers, berries and fruits in the college’s orchard, market garden, (unheated) High Tunnel and (heated) Agricultural Greenhouse. Produce is sold to the college’s Culinary Arts program and restaurant, Seasoned; campus dining services; the community; and donated with the hope to expand to local area restaurants and K-12 schools. The Farm, orchard and greenhouses sit on 2 acres on the northern edge of the Queensbury campus. The Farm is operated in collaboration with faculty and students in the Agricultural Business program. The Farm and orchard are open to the public and for use of all college staff and students. Noncredited courses are available on The Farm through SUNY ADK’s Continuing Education program.
Going green
SUNY Adirondack offers courses and microcredentials in Cannabis and Hemp Cultivation, and Cannabis Business and Entrepreneurship.
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to initiate, develop and expand an agricultural business.
- Understand the functional management tasks of planning organizing, leading and controlling.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance and implementation of marketing research.
- Understand how soils act as the foundation of agriculture and how they are affected by management decisions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary issues, opportunities and methods in food production agriculture and agriculture businesses.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of small-business finances.
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic business and management principles as they relate to the agriculture industry.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of business law.
Chandler Atkins
- Distinguished professor of Business
Michael Cahill
- Instructor of Science
Kim Feeney London
- Assistant professor of Business
- Chair of Business Division; Agricultural Business advisor