Grow Grains, Legumes, Cereals, Pseudocereals, Pulses and More
This is an industry which is constantly changing, and increasingly technical. Through this course you can develop a fundamental understanding of a wide range of grain and legume crops; broadening your perspective on what you might grow and how it might be grown on an agronomic farm.
Course Duration: 100 hours
Course Structure
This course has nine lessons.
- Introduction to grains
- Production of crops in different climates and ecological zones
- Crop growing periods and growing degree days
- Cropping season as affected by moisture availability
- World cropping
- Cereal crop growth stages
- Grain types
- Production systems
- Cereal/grain infrastructure and machinery requirements
- Equipment requirements
- Seed
- Harvest
- Grain storage
- Wheat , triticale, spelt, barley, oats, rye
- Wheat and spelt
- Triticale
- Oats
- Barley
- Rye
- Maize, Sorghum, millet
- Rice
- Cultivation
- Crop health and diseases
- Harvest
- Pulse crops
- Pulse crops
- Soybeans
- Pidgeon peas
- Lima beans
- Cowpeas
- Mung beans
- Chickpeas
- Lentils
- Faba beans
- Field peas
- Pseudo cereals
- Chia
- Quinoa
- Amaranth
- Buckwheat
- Sesame seed
- Processing grains for human consumption
- Post-harvest processing
- Storage
- Grain processing for consumption
- Wheat processing
- Processing maize (corn)
- Processing rice
- Processing oats
- Processing pseudograins
- Fortifying foods
- Grains for livestock consumption
- Difference between crops for human consumption and animal consumption
- C3 and C4 grasses
- Nutrient-dense forages and forage quality
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