The University of Wisconsin’s Farm and Industry Short Course is undergoing some changes.
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean Kate VandenBosch says the current 16-week residential student format no longer meets the needs of many farmers and other agribusiness owners who can’t spare workers for four months in a year and who no longer see winter as a ‘down-time’ for their businesses.
VandenBosch says starting next year, the short course will be non-credit and participants will have the flexibility to take the courses they want, as time allows. She says there will be in-person and virtual formats, and some programs offered on nights and weekends.
