Study Agronomy and grow root crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots and more!

The Agronomy III (Root Crops) course will help you understand how to grow root crops to get the most out of your farm. Learn about potato, sweet potato, carrots, turnips, yams, beets and more.

Whether you want to start out growing root crops, or add them to your crops, this course will help you understand what you need to ensure a bumper crop.

There are 10 lessons in this course:

• Scope and Nature of Root Cropping and the Botany of Roots
• Cultural Practices A: Soil Management, Crop Scheduling and Soil Water
• Cultural Practices B: Weed control, Pest Management
• Potatoes
• Carrots and their Relatives
• Turnips and their Relatives
• Beets
• Taro, Yams and Sweet Potato
• Other Root Crops
• Harvest and Post-Harvest Management