In the summer of 2014, Cor Van Raay, a renowned agricultural entrepreneur in southern Alberta, donated $5 million to Lethbridge College and the University of Lethbridge to establish the Cor Van Raay Southern Alberta Agribusiness Program. And, as of last fall, the first initiative was offered under the program.
The initiative is called the Agriculture Business Risk Management Program, and is offered through Lethbridge College. Developed in collaboration with industry groups across the province, the program offers the opportunity for participants to focus on financial risk, and topics associated with it.
“The program is made up of 11 courses, and within those courses, we’ve made it very accessible by breaking them down into modules,’ explains Lyndsay Smith, agriculture industry liaison with Lethbridge College, “and a module is equivalent to one month of learning.”
The program covers topics like:
- Effective Communications
- Market Fundamentals
- Government Policies and Marketing
- Statistics or Agribusiness
- Introduction to Market Tools
- Market Tools
- Market Currencies
And, the learning opportunity is not limited to registered students. In fact, the program, and its individual modules are all available online.
“This course is fully online,” Smith told RealAgriculture. “It is not offered at the campus right now. So all students would be taking it online. So there’s no geographical limitations to that — you can take it anywhere.”
Source : Albertacanola