This program is designed to prepare students to maintain and repair specialized ranch, farm, and agribusiness power equipment and vehicles. This program typically includes in depth instruction in the principles of diesel, electrical, combustion, hydraulic, steam, and mechanical systems and their application to the maintenance of terrestrial and airborne crop-spraying equipment; planting and harvesting equipment; tractors and hauling equipment; power sources and systems for silos; cutting equipment; irrigation and pumping equipment; feeding, dairy, processing systems, and shearing operations.
The following colleges and universities provide majors and degree programs in Agricultural Equipment Technology.
- Minnesota West Community and Technical College
Pipestone, MN - Northeast Community College
Norfolk, NE - Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute
Wooster, OH - South Central College
North Mankato, MN - Southwest Georgia Technical College
Thomasville, GA - Spoon River College
Canton, IL - State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Morrisville
Morrisville, NY - University of Idaho
Moscow, ID - University of Wisconsin-River Falls
River Falls, WI - Utah State University
Logan, UT - Walla Walla Community College
Walla Walla, WA - Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
Shell Lake, WI