Study Guide

Objective

The studies increase students' skills developing plant production plans for a farm. The student can explain the factors of plant production planning and developing. Student can analyze the present situation and the problems related to that, as well as map the possibilities of development. Based on this, the student can create development plan including economic calculations as well as indicators and methods of evaluation. Student can make the plant production plan by using a planning tool programme. Student can plan a crop rotation which increases the soil quality and in which the fertilization and plant protection are done by considering environmental and sustainability factors.

The student is also able to plan machinery systems for cereal/grass production. The student can make nutrient balance calculations. The student can also utilize research outcomes.

Content

Purchase of farm-specific basic material.
Economical calculations
Crop rotation, carbon farming and regenerative farming
Plant protection plan and pest control methods.
Nutrient balances, their analysis and development.
Farm development plan including bookkeeping
Designing of technology solutions
Crop Production Planning Program and its use

Materials

Electronically available Finnish, Swedish and English material, which is pointed out in Moodle

Teaching methods

Contact teaching, oral presentations, group guidance and group work.

Exam schedules

No exams

Student workload

Total work load 270 h, of which scheduled studies 50 h, guidance in groups 50 and group work 170 h

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student can make plant protection plans and cultivation and production plans with economic calculations, if he is guided. The student will find means which can be used to improve the nutrient balance and crop production of the farm.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student can make a cultivation plan, and crop protection plan with economic calculations and calculate the field balance sheets of the farm. The student explains how different factors affect the balance sheets of the state and to the making of the cultivation plan. The student analyses and interprets the cultivation of the farm and the factors which affect it.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student can make a cultivation plan, crop protection plan with economic calculations and calculate the field balance sheets of the farm. The student thinks and justifies factors which affect the balance sheets and cultivation plan. The student analyses the cultivation of the farm and presents the concrete developing measures of the farm

Assessment methods and criteria

Development plan (1-5), plant protection, profit margin calculatios and wisu plans (accepted)

Qualifications

Basics of professional studies