Agricultural Business
AGBS 1. Introductory Agricultural Economics
Prerequisite: GE Foundation A2 for students in English college-readiness Category III and IV. Microeconomic principles of resource allocation, production, cost, and market price equilibrium with primary application to farms and agribusinesses. Supply and demand in commodity pricing under perfect and imperfect competition. Optimizing single variable input production function; total/marginal approaches to profit maximizing output. G.E.Breadth D2.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: D2
AGBS 2. Agricultural Sector Analysis
Domestic and international forces affecting industry profitability of farm input suppliers, agricultural producers, commodity processors, food marketers; government fiscal, monetary, trade policies interaction with agricultural credit, price support, food subsidy programs; inpact on agribusiness asset values, debt accumulation, income levels.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 5. Survey of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
Orientation to agricultural sector, institutions, and historic farm problems. Basic economic concepts and business principles applied to management, marketing, finance, and trade. Consumer demand and producer supply functions. Competitive market price determination. Overview of resource, environmental, consumer, and farming issues and government policies.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
AGBS 28. Introductory Agricultural Law
Fundamentals of agricultural law including historical sources; legislative laws and business ethics; administrative regulations, judicial decisions affecting agriculture; express and implied contracts with remedies for their breach in agricultural situations; real and personal property law plus secured transactions in agriculture.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 31. Farm Accounting
Basic concepts and principles of financial accounting systems applied to farm operations; mechanics of recording single and double entry transactions under cash and accrual accounting methods; preparation and analysis of enterprise records and financial statements to generate management information.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 32. Agribusiness Managerial Accounting
Prerequisite: AGBS 31 or ACCT 4A. Application and analysis of accounting information for farm and agribusiness management; integration of economic, and financial principles in preparing business plans; equipment cost control and crop enterprise accounting methods; capital investment and profit performance; introduction to computerized farm accounting systems. ( 2 lecture, 1 arranged)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 71. Agricultural Business Statistics
Study of statistical techniques and formal reasoning applications to management and social and agricultural sciences. Calculation, interpretation, critical evaluation, and historical relevance of quantitative tools, data analysis, and results including graphical presentations, descriptive and inferential statistics, hypotheses formulation and testing, and regression.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 76. Agribusiness Microcomputer Applications
Applied microcomputing for agribusiness management; use of spreadsheet, database management , and presentation software; applications to basic farm accounting and financial budgeting, farm production recordkeeping, and commodity price trend tracking.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 78. Agribusiness Quantitative Analysis
Functional relationships, marginal analysis and decision-making models in agribusiness; logic and probability in diagnosing problems, designing operations and achieving objectives; identification of procedures for efficient resource utilization.
Units: 3
AGBS 80. Undergraduate Research
Prerequisites: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40) and permission of instructor. Directed study or research on particular problems in the field of agricultural economics and business. Consult department policies and procedures governing undergraduate research. Approved for SP grading.
Units: 1-4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 85T. Topics in Agricultural Business
Agricultural economics, farm management, agribusiness management, financial planning, agricultural development, public policy, product marketing, and decision analysis. Topics may require lab hours.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
AGBS 100. Intermediate Agricultural Economics
Prerequisites: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40) and MATH 11 (or MATH 75 or MATH 75A & B). Analysis of farm financial statements; institutional sources of farm credit; time value of money and capital budgeting for agricultural investment; cost of debt and equity capital; risk management strategies; insurance, tax, and farm estate planning.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 105. Agricultural Business Quantitative Methods
Prerequisites: AGBS 1, AGBS 76 (C or better) and MATH 11 (or MATH 75 or MATH 75A & B). Advanced functional relationships, modeling and decision-making analysis in agribusiness; linear programming, sensitivity and regression analysis in spreadsheet models; application of statistical tests for efficient data examination.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 109. Management of Agri-food Supply Chains
Prerequisites: AGBS 100 and AGBS 105. Functional and Institutional approach to agri-food supply chain management, understanding animal protein, commodity crop and produce supply chains, sustainable institutional relationships, logistics and transportation, technology management, supply chain coordination through contracts and negotiations, food safety risk and communication.
Units: 3
AGBS 110. Farm Management
Prerequisites: AGBS 31, AGBS 76, and AGBS 100. Production economics and management techniques for analysis of efficient farm resource use, planning and organization; analysis of budgeting and optimization techniques, and computer applications for developing farm management plans.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 117. Agricultural Labor-Management Relations
Prerequisite: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40). Economic analysis of the farm labor market; labor productivity, agricultural mechanization and farm employment; farm labor laws and government regulations; agricultural labor relations, unionization, and collective bargaining; farm personnel administration practices and supervisory management principles.
Units: 3
AGBS 120. Agribusiness Management
Prerequisite: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40). Organizational forms and management functions of agribusiness firms; human resource management systems; management science principles for optimizing plant location, equipment replacement, inventory control, and sales volume; operations research techniques, including probability-based network and decision models, for solving agribusiness problems.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 122. Agricultural Cooperative Management
Prerequisite: AGBS 120. Philosophical, historical, and legislative evolution of U.S. agricultural cooperatives; uniqueness of cooperative organization, planning, direction and control functions vis-a-vis standard corporations; legal, financial, and tax considerations in managing input-supply and marketing cooperatives; case studies and field trips to cooperatives.
Units: 3
AGBS 124. Food and Fiber Industry Management
Prerequisite: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40). Production management of farm input manufactures, agricultural commodity processing, food/fiber product distribution; functional approach to transformation/value-added operations including planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling; case applications to materials handling, product development, food packaging, quality control, transportation logistics, inventory management.
Units: 3
AGBS 128. Agricultural Leadership
The role of government, industry, and consumers in developing comprehensive and inclusive solutions to current agricultural and food issues is explored. Leadership and communication skills for accomplishing group objectives are developed. A field trip is required. (Formerly AGBS 185T section)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
AGBS 130. Agricultural Finance
Prerequisites: AGBS 2, AGBS 32, AGBS 76. Prerequisite or corequisite: AGBS 100 or instructor's permission. Analysis of farm financial statements; institutional sources of farm credit; time value of money and capital budgeting for agricultural investment; cost of debt and equity capital; risk management strategies; insurance, tax, and farm estate planning.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 131. Agricultural Capital Markets
Prerequisites: AGBS 2, AGBS 130. Public and private financial intermediaries as sources of agricultural capital; the Cooperative Farm Credit System; credit management policies and practices; government policy, the regulatory environment, and competitive financial markets; legal requirements and financial instruments; external equity capital; and lease financing. (Formerly AGEC 185T)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
AGBS 136. Farm and Ranch Appraisal
Prerequisites: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40). AGBS 110 recommended. Principles of agricultural appraisal; physical and economic factors affecting land values; estimation of real estate value using income, cost, and market data approaches; case studies and field problems involving the valuation of local farm and ranch properties.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
AGBS 140. International Agricultural Economics
Prerequisites: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40), AGBS 2 or ECON 50. U.S. agricultural sector in the global economy; trade theory versus government protectionism; domestic farm programs impacts on commodity exports/imports; international agreements, multi-lateral institutions, foreign currency exchange rates, overseas investment; regulatory, fiscal, monetary policies affecting agribusiness competitiveness in world markets.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 150. Agricultural and Food Policy
Prerequisite: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40); AGBS 2 or ECON 50. Analysis of public policies affecting the economics of U.S. and California agriculture; government programs influencing agricultural production, commodity distribution, market prices, farm income; environmental and natural resource issues; nutrition, food safety and biotechnology concerns; food industry regulation; international agricultural trade.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 155. Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation, Breadth Area D. Economic Analysis of public policies governing land use, water management, energy generation, mineral exploitation and forest administration; review of population pressures and resource conservation; examination of externalities, property rights issues, resource use planning, agricultural zoning, environmental regulations, and reclamation law. GE Integration ID.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: ID
AGBS 160. Agricultural Marketing Analysis
Prerequisite: AGBS 100 or permission of instructor. Commodity transformation and product flow through processing and distribution channels; market structure, conduct and performance; marketing system efficiency and marketing bill components; over supply, marketing orders, grading and standards, and price stabilization; price forecasting, futures market trading, and risk management.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 162. Commodity Futures Trading
Prerequisite: AGBS 160 or permission of instructor. Study of commodity futures and options markets; speculative trading and techniques of fundamental and technical analyses; crop and livestock hedging strategies for commodity procurement and marketing; integrating options and futures trading for risk management; and development of futures trading plans.
Units: 3
AGBS 163. Agricultural Export Marketing
Prerequisite: AGBS 160 or permission of instructor. Determination of potential overseas markets for U.S. agricultural products through export marketing studies; foreign business environment and distribution channels; product preparation and transportation abroad; cultural-specific promotional and advertising programs; international sales agreements, financial transactions, plus banking and shipping documentation.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
AGBS 164. Agribusiness Sales Management
Prerequisite: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40). Marketing management strategies for stimulating business and consumer demand for agricultural goods and services; food and fiber merchandising using institutional, functional, value approaches; sales program organization and staff development for effective communication of product information and timely completion transactions.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
AGBS 170WS. Advanced Agribusiness Applications
Prerequisites: AGBS1, AGBS 2, AGBS 28, AGBS 32, and AGBS 76. To be taken no sooner than the term in which 60 units are completed or concurrently enrolled. Introduction to various types of professional agribusiness written communications. The development of written communication skills will include business correspondence and other forms common to agribusinesses. Meets the upper-division writing requirement for graduation. A service learning project is expected of all students.
Units: 3
AGBS 173. Wine Marketing
Introduction to basic marketing concepts such as pricing, promotion, packaging and place applied to the wine business. Sources of information and methods to conduct market research in the wine industry. Consumer trends, buyer behavior and the structure and legal environment will be discussed.
Units: 3
AGBS 180. Undergraduate Research
Prerequisites: senior standing and permission of instructor. Directed study or research on particular problems in the field of agricultural economics and business. Consult department policies and procedures governing undergraduate research. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 1-4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 185T. Topics in Agricultural Business
Prerequisite: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40). Agricultural economics, farm management, agribusiness management, financial planning, agricultural development, public policy, product marketing, and decision analysis. Topics may require lab hours.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 9 units
AGBS 192. Agricultural Business Field Studies
Prerequisite: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40). Business and economic functions performed by specialized agricultural agencies with emphasis on physical operating patterns. Field trips to production, marketing, and finance firms. Workshops with agribusiness managers. (1 lecture, 2 lab hours) (Field trip fees, $75)
Units: 2
AGBS 194I. Agribusiness Internship
Prerequisites: sophomore standing. Emphasis on development of decision-making ability through industrial experience integrated with basic principles acquired in the classroom. Only 3 units of internship allowable in the major. CR/NC grading only.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 195. Agricultural Business Competitive Teams
Prerequisites: AGBS 1 (or ECON 40). This course provides students with hands-on experience incorporating theories and tools learned through required coursework. Activities will be an "academic playground" that will give students the opportunity to show off their skills in a competitive environment among colleges and universities.
Units: 3, Repeatable up to 6 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
AGBS 280T. Topics in Agricultural Business
Prerequisite: AGBS 210. Classified standing or permission of instructor. Fields of study include: farm management, agribusiness management, financial planning, international agriculture, public policy, and product marketing.
Units: 3, Repeatable up to 6 units
AGBS 290. Independent Study
See Academic Placement -- Approved for SP grading.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
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