| COURSE TITLE: | Workshop in Horticulture: Vegetable Production & Management |
| COURSE: | Hort 493 |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: | Principles
of vegetable production with emphasis on sustainable practices, market
outlets, business aspects, and risk management. Organic techniques will
be discussed. Major crop climatic conditions, growth and development,
harvesting, storage, and marketing. In addition to exams, quizzes there
will be a few special project assignments. Nonmajor graduate credit.
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| PREREQUISITES: | Instructor permission is required; a basic plant science or biology course containing botany; Hort 221 or Agron 114 or equivalent; a basic soil science course would be helpful |
| CREDITS: | 2 undergraduate credits or 2 non-major graduate credits |
| COMPUTER REQUIREMENT: | See College of Agriculture Computer Requirements |
| DATES: | March 3-May 9, 2008 |
| DELIVERY METHOD: | Streaming Video/Web |
| LOCATION: | |
| TUITION: | $446 (undergraduate) or $694 (graduate) / Other fees that will be assessed |
| OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAM: | Bachelor
of Liberal Arts & Sciences; Master of Agriculture |
| INSTRUCTOR: | Hank Taber; taber@iastate.edu |
| REGISTRATION DEADLINE: | February 18, 2008 |
| TEXT: | Decoteau, D.R. 2000. Vegetable Crops. Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN: 0139569960. |
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