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Food and Agribusiness Management applies marketing, sales and economic concepts to the food and fiber industry.

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The Food and Agribusiness Management (FABM) major offers a business education with a twist. Building on the basics of business, including accounting, finance, marketing and leadership, the FABM major incorporates a special focus on the multi-million dollar food and fiber industry. Not only do our students achieve a background in business principles, but they leave the program with a working knowledge of the how the agribusiness sector operates and impacts domestic and world economies. We teach about international trade, product management, human resources, finance, and strategies of successful salesmanship. Our students get to experience a course in Futures Trading, where an on-site link to the Chicago Board of Trade shows how the market is doing. There is an option to concentrate studies in Food Marketing, where students explore the food market system from farm to consumer, and learn to market food commodities from cereal and produce to Perdue chicken! The FABM major builds from a solid foundation of courses in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. On top of those important basics, we apply courses from the Department of Food and Resource Economics, as well as general education requirements like mathematics; computers; foreign language; English; social sciences; humanities; literature and arts; and the agricultural and biological sciences. These requirements ensure breadth and diversity in the undergraduate experience. A faculty advisor works with each student to create a 4-year curriculum that best suits individual interests.