Lakeland College is going to offer Canada’s first Agriculture Technology degree.
The two-year, post-credential Bachelor of Agriculture Technology Program will be based out of the Vermilion campus, and use Lakeland’s new Agricultural Technology Centre, which will open this year as well. The 8,000 square-foot building will be a student-managed farm lab where students will work with new technologies and analyze new-data sets.
The school says the course will use emerging technology in robotics, geospatial tools, artificial intelligence and new software to eventually have students end the program specializing in either crop or livestock technology applications. They’ll also know how to create a crop or livestock management system, as well as perform data collection and analysis.