FdSc Agriculture with Mechanisation

If you are interested in agricultural machinery and technology and see your career focusing on the management and application of farm machinery, rather than engineering, this is the route for you.

The first part of the course provides a general introduction to agriculture in terms of animal and crop production, underpinning biological and environmental science, an introduction to farm business management and marketing and agricultural mechanisation.

In the second part of the course you start to specialise in the area of mechanisation studying areas such as farm machinery technology, hydraulics and electrics, and mechanisation aspects of soil and farm infrastructure. The mechanisation aspects are studied alongside more general aspects of agriculture such as crop production and science, farm business management and people management. In addition, in the final year, you will also complete a Professional Project aligned to your interests and ambitions.

The principles of mechanisation are developed in an applied way without the use of complex mathematics.

Following completion of the FdSc Agriculture with Mechanisation programme, subject to performance, you can top-up to a Pass Degree or a full Honours Degree in Agriculture with Mechanisation.

Careers

The skills you will develop will be useful throughout the industry, whether managing large, highly mechanised farms, running a successful contracting business or working in the agricultural machinery sector. Harper Adams graduates have a long history of successfully finding employment within all of these areas of work.