A sizable collaborative project is enabling Minnesota’s Farm Business Management Education program to realign and revise its curriculum – offered through eight colleges across the state – to better help today’s producers achieve success. The program, designed for producers interested in learning more about farm business management and finance to improve profitability, now is based on clearly defined course and program outcomes that remain constant no matter where in Minnesota those courses are taught, or by whom. The newly defined course and program outcomes resulted from an occupational analysis that determined which knowledge and skills producers currently need to be successful business managers.
Minnesota’s Farm Business Management Education program, currently enrolling about 3,150 producers annually, has a more complete and outcomes-driven curriculum than ever before, according to Dick Joerger, system director for Agriculture and Business Program Coordination for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. Producers know what knowledge and skills they will master by the end of each course and upon completion of the program, Joerger says. Moreover, the new curriculum and soon-to-be-completed instructional materials will make it easy for instructors to teach the courses, because they feature complete and updated curriculum, learning plans, learning activities, instructional media and performance assessments – soon to be accessible from a centralized Web site.
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