Building Smarter Agricultural Systems
Feeding a growing world requires innovative technologies and smarter agricultural systems. The Agricultural Systems Management major prepares you to manage the people, processes and technologies that move agriculture forward.
What You’ll Study
You’ll combine agricultural technology, business and management with hands-on learning in project management, production systems, processing, equipment, water and irrigation and other technologies shaping modern agriculture.
What You’ll Take Away
You’ll graduate with the technical expertise, business knowledge and leadership skills to solve complex problems and help build more efficient, productive and sustainable agricultural systems.
Find Your Focus
Explore how technology, management and resource stewardship come together across agricultural systems. Build expertise in areas that align with your interests and prepare you to improve the systems agriculture depends on.
Systems Management
You’ll learn to see the big picture by analyzing how people, processes and technology work together. Apply planning, logistics and data-driven decision-making to improve agricultural operations.
Irrigation Water Management
You’ll explore California’s complex water systems while learning to evaluate irrigation performance, crop water needs and management strategies that make every drop count.
Sustainable Energy
You’ll discover how renewable energy and conservation can reduce reliance on fossil fuels while exploring the environmental, economic and policy decisions shaping our energy future.
Coursework Highlights
Through hands-on coursework and applied learning experiences, students develop the technical knowledge and practical skills needed to lead in modern agriculture.
Classes and Labs
Turn ideas into technical designs through hands-on experience with sketching, computer-aided design and 3D modeling. You’ll create drawings and models used to visualize, communicate and solve real-world engineering challenges.
Gain hands-on experience using professional surveying technologies, including robotic stations, RTK positioning and GIS. You’ll collect and analyze field data to create maps and support building layout, road design and other real-world projects.
Explore how tractors and agricultural machinery perform in real-world operations. You’ll gain hands-on experience evaluating equipment, analyzing costs and making management decisions that improve efficiency and productivity.
Explore the mechanical and hydraulic systems that power modern agricultural equipment. You’ll gain hands-on experience with power transmission, hydraulic components and circuit design while learning to troubleshoot and apply these systems in real-world operations.
Study California’s water resources while gaining hands-on skills in irrigation efficiency, soil moisture, water measurement and scheduling to make informed management decisions.
Learn how supply, demand, markets and prices shape agriculture. You’ll learn to evaluate production and resource decisions while building the economic insight needed to manage successful agricultural operations.
Build the leadership skills to manage people and teams across California agriculture. You’ll explore hiring, training, performance, workplace safety, labor relations and policies that support productive agricultural organizations.
Experience Agricultural Systems Management
Build your community and your career through student organizations, industry experiences and hands-on learning that connects you with the people and technologies moving agriculture forward.
Find Your People
Connect with classmates who share your interests, build lasting friendships and develop leadership skills through student clubs, teams and shared experiences.
Compete with the Tractor Pull Team or Precision Agriculture and Automation Club, work with alternative energies in the Future Fuels Club or join the Agricultural Engineering Society.
Industry Experience and Connections
From agricultural technology to water management, career opportunities in Agricultural Systems Management are diverse and far-reaching.
Hands-on projects, internships and industry connections prepare you to manage people, technology and processes while building a career in modern agriculture.
Living Laboratories
You’ll learn in living laboratories, from agricultural fields and irrigation systems to processing facilities and specialized labs, where you can test ideas, solve real-world problems and improve the systems that power modern agriculture.
Explore Agricultural Systems Management
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