Are all agricultural students these days taught the principles of ecology?

Question

.....so that we dont have people in the harvesting of natural resources occupations, bleating on about quotas because of being too uneducated to realise that resources such as fish stocks are not infinite.

Answer 1

For my degree in agronomy I did not need a course in ecology.  It was an elective and not required for the major.

Answer 2

No.  I took ecology as a required course but that was when i was majoring in fisheries and wildlife, but i switched to Agribusiness and my Ecology class only transferred as a general elective as did my Botany.

Answer 3

they should be and it normally forms a core module of their courses. there is a lot of emphasis on sustainable use of natural resources so in this and related fields and so its covered

Answer 4

Yes they are. Ecology is generally considered a branch of Biology but it is a genuinely multi-disciplinary science. They are not usually taught to bleat about the environment. I think you would have  to study a social science course for that or perhaps media studies. They do a LOT of bleating.

Answer 5

Absolutely.

But in the proper way, not the Greenpeace way.

All of us have been taught about managing finite resources and the different ways to preserve them, as well as to preserve rent.