International Dairy Management

International Dairy Management

Duration
5 months
Education type
Exchange programme
Field of interest
Business
Field of interest
Animal sciences
Introduction

The study programme

Today’s dairy farmers have two jobs in one. Besides specialising in the field of dairy farming, they are entrepreneurs with a good head for business. They manage their farms on the basis of cost effectiveness and profitability, while considering globalization, cultural differences, the environmental, and public demand for cows to graze outdoors for a better quality of life. Our exchange programme in International Dairy Management provides you with an international learning experience and the opportunity to add value to your undergraduate programme. It is part of a bachelor’s degree programme with the same name and teaches you all there is to know about managing and developing dairy farms, either as an owner, a manager or an advisor.

Admission requirements

This is how you get admitted

  • This exchange programme is open for students studying at a partner university of Aeres UAS.
Characteristics

Is this the programme for you?

  • International learning experience

    Many of the students who took this programme before you tell us that studying abroad helped them to broaden their horizon and improve their English. They also enjoyed working on challenging projects with fellow students from all over the world with different backgrounds. Not only did the programme prepare them for an international career in farm management, it also provided them with an international learning experience.

    Aeres University of Applied Sciences, Dronten, students, international studies

  • You love farming

    Are you thinking of starting a career in farm management or as an advisor to farmers? Or will you be taking over your family’s farm one day? This programme prepares you to run a business in the dairy farming sector because you love farming.

    Students from Aeres University of Applied Sciences with cow food nutrition at Aeres Farms

  • Develop an agribusiness mindset

    Aeres University of Applied Sciences is the first of its kind to receive the special Certificate of Entrepreneurship. This programme and others like it focus on entrepreneurship and its application to a specific sector or industry. So, by taking this programme, you will develop an agribusiness mindset.

    Aeres University of Applied Sciences, Dronten, students, international studies

  • Learn from the specialists

    The Netherlands is one of Europe’s leading agricultural countries. Besides this, Aeres University of Applied Sciences not only specialises in agriculture and agribusiness programmes, it also ranks at the top of its league. So, come and learn from the agricultural education specialists.

    class of students from Aeres University of Applied Sciences get practical lesson at dairy farm at Aeres Farms
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Practical matters

What you need to know...

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A student’s perspective

Students from Aeres University of Applied Sciences with cow food nutrition research at Aeres Farms
Livestock production Aeres University of Applied Sciences Dronten
student from Aeres University of Applied Sciences with DeLaval milking robot at dairy farm at Aeres Farms
Programme content

This is what you will learn

This programme is made up of 2 modules of 13 ECTS each. Both modules involve practical training in the form of research that you carry out for a dairy farmer. This concludes with you presenting a report with your findings and a proposal for improvements in an advisory meeting with the farmer.

Modules

  • Dairy Specialist and Advisor

    This module prepares you for the role of a consultant or an advisor in the dairy farming sector. To provide you with the necessary knowledge, there are classes in dairy nutrition, genetics and health, and in roughage production. At the end of the module, you get to practice your role by communicating with a dairy farmer, gathering and analysing data and formulating advice with the farmer’s objectives in mind.

  • International Entrepreneurship

    In this module, you will learn how to deal with the complex situations that agricultural businesses are faced with, by developing ideas and calculating the economic effects of operational, tactical and strategic options for your own farm or that of your clients. This means exploring possible improvements to farm management and developing new ideas for farm development. To provide you with the necessary knowledge, skills and competencies, there are classes in farm economics, strategic management, marketing and sales, international agricultural policy, HRM and international pig production. You will put what you learn into practice by writing a strategic advisory report and presenting this to a Dairy farmer.

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