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Agriculture Tutors & Agriculture courses

A key tool in supporting human development, agriculture is a practice with ancient roots. Perhaps most often associated with farming, this rapidly growing industry has wider interdisciplinary foundations spanning both natural and social sciences. Agricultural studies incorporate biosciences, zoology, ecology, economics, business management, and chemistry to name a few. With emerging global threats and new technological advances, the way in which humans cultivate and distribute food is constantly changing. This diverse subject offers the essential skills for future generations to fight food poverty and climate change, while protecting the earth’s plants, animals, and healthy food systems. Our agriculture tutors can support your journey to qualification at every stage.

Today, agriculture is at the heart of human experience. It provides us not only with all kinds of plant and animal based foods, but also with essential fabrics and materials, such as cotton, wood and paper. To this day, agriculture accounts for a third of all global employment. Thanks to advances in technology, for example pesticides and fertilisers, agriculture has become infinitely more efficient than its neolithic origins. The demand for produce has grown alongside its efficiency. This process has created numerous ethical, ecological, and environmental debates, which make agricultural courses all the more relevant and interesting. Our agriculture tutors will give you the skills needed to navigate the vital practice of agriculture in a modern context.

 

What can you study?

Agriculture is a broad area with many opportunities for specialisation, often combining practical, hands-on experience with lessons in technology and science, agriculture degrees are exciting for their extensive range. Most agriculture degrees will offer a chance to gain experience in the industry. This will allow you to find out which aspects of agriculture fascinates you the most, as well as form important industry contacts. Some modules you might study as part of your degree are:

 

-Livestock production

-Crop production

-Economics of farming

-Sustainability

-Global cultivation practices

-Anatomy and physiology

-Plant and soil science

-Innovations in energy

 

Plenty of UK higher education institutions offer agriculture accounting degrees, often set on vast farming grounds. To access these courses, you will need either a BTEC qualification or A-level that demonstrates an interest in science. You will also need a C or grade 4 English and Maths qualification. Our agriculture tutors are ready to assist you with the necessary preparation for an agriculture degree application, whatever stage of education you may currently be at.

The links to global society and the economy are crucial to agriculture. To prepare students for work within the international economy, the subject will introduce agri-food supply chain management, agricultural policy, and rural entrepreneurship. Core subjects will also offer skills in crop production, soil and water science, and livestock management. For those interested in the environmental implications, there is also scope to explore areas such as forestry and woodland management, land ecology, climate change, and regenerative farming.

Agriculture Careers & where it takes you?

Students of agriculture will gain a number of both vocational and transferable skills: graduates of this degree could go into food production, farming journalism, soil science, plant and animal genetics or sustainability to mention just a few. It goes without saying that, so long as human development continues along its trajectory, agricultural studies will become more and more indispensable to finding efficient solutions to feed our overpopulated planet.

The UN has recently called for global action to prevent the next food crisis. Poverty, climate change, COVID-19 repercussions and world conflicts are huge pressures currently affecting food security. Agriculture is a key vessel for real-world change, where there are vast opportunities to help the world’s most vulnerable people while protecting the planet, people’s food security and earths precious resources.

This subject is a truly international discipline, with many real-life applications across the world. From Agricultural Consultant to Farm Manager, or from Soil Scientist to Sustainable Farming Ecologist, graduates can apply skills from a range of subjects. For those interested in tech, recent productivity innovations have seen drones operated, robotic harvesters engineered, and artificial intelligence (AI) programmed. Other innovative opportunities within agriculture can lead graduates to organic farming, DNA and genetics, and nutrition. Such a multidisciplinary subject develops a host of transferable skills, equipping graduates for a range of exciting and important careers.

 

GCSE, A-level, BTEC & Degree-level tutoring in Agricultural Studies

Mayfair Consultants offers at home, one-on-one tuition in Agriculture to clients living across the London area, including students working at GCSE, AS and A-Levels, and those taking undergraduate or postgraduate degrees in the subject (i.e., BA/BSc, MA/MSc, PhD). Our fully qualified Agriculture tutors are highly skilled specialists, with many holding postgraduate degrees in the subject. They offer clear, concise explanations and stimulating approaches, helping to support the needs of every client. If you’d like to arrange private lessons or have any questions about our tuition services, please call us on Tel: +44 (0) 207 665 6606 or you can send us an email via our contact form.

 

Useful resources for agricultural and farming students:

https://www.agricology.co.uk/resources  – ground-breaking research on sustainable farming

https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/ – news, briefings, and papers on agricultural policy and development in OECD countries

https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/sustainable-agriculture – WWF research into the environmental impact of agriculture and sustainability

https://www.fwi.co.uk/ – Farmers Weekly: online courses, news, markets, and job listings

https://www.fao.org/home/en – The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization – world news, podcasts, and policy updates

https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-production – Key statistics on agriculture and production

https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2021/06/23/how-farming-is-changing/ – policy info on UK farming post-Brexit

https://www.nfuonline.com/hot-topics/nfu-education/ – UK National Farmers’ Union – learning resources, careers, news

https://www.countrysideclassroom.org.uk/ – revision resources for GCSE and A-levels

https://www.globalagriculture.org/ – news, research and reports on health, food inequality, and food systems

https://rase.org.uk/ – The Royal Agricultural Society of England

https://www.agroecology-europe.org/ – The European Association for Agro-ecology

https://www.globalagriculture.org/ – Findings and Recommendation for Future Farming

https://www.ffa.org/about/ – Future Farmers of America

https://www.agricology.co.uk/ – Sustainable Farming Website

https://www.farm-europe.eu/ – European Farming Think Tank

https://www.organicseurope.bio/ – Organic Food and Farming in Europe

 

Journals

 

https://www.agriculturejournal.org/ – Current Agriculture Research Journal

https://www.omicsonline.org/agriculture-journals-united-kingdom/ – UK Agricultural Journals List

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-agricultural-science – Agricultural Science

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14779552 –  Agricultural Economics

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/soil-biology-and-biochemistry – Soil and Bio-science

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10970010 – Food Science

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/agricultural-and-forest-meteorology – Forestry and Meteorology

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