Starting next fall, Olds College will offer a Bachelor of Digital Agriculture degree through a program created in collaboration with industry.
“Students will engage in real-world problems and explore solutions using digital agriculture technologies and practices,” the college said in a release.
“Graduates will be prepared to lead disruptive change in agriculture with a grounding in multidisciplinary leadership, systems and entrepreneurial thinking, digital agriculture technologies and machinery management, agronomy and data sciences to realize the social, economic and environmental objectives of sustainability.”
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Farms increasingly need these sorts of skills, the CEO of a major grain farm and feedlot operation said in the release.
“As a producer, the speed at which technology is changing our current agriculture practices is daunting,” said Jeff Carlson, CEO of Carlson Agricultural Enterprises.
“Now, more than ever, the ag sector needs skilled graduates who are able to understand, harness and leverage the immense amount of data being generated throughout the agri-food value chain.”
The college also has a diploma program and a post-diploma certificate program in ag tech.
