Fundamentals of animal management and production: nutrition; feeds and feeding; reproduction and breeding; animal welfare and health; housing and equipment; animal-environment interactions. Introduction to farm animal industries, their products and by-products: matching production of quality and safe food with protection and care of the environment. Fundamental skills of animal husbandry: rationing; weighing and tagging; usage of preventive and diagnostic equipment; animal's environment; evaluation of body condition score; performance records. Animal behaviour. Animal housing evaluation. Principles of agronomy. Crop-environment interactions. Crop physiology. Crop propagation. Cropping systems. Agrometeorology. Field operations and techniques in crop production. Applications of management principles to farm production activities.
