Stages 1 and 2: Involve an introduction to agriculture. Stage 3: Core modules cover the agronomic and physiological basis of production and the protection of combinable and non-combinable crops throughout the production cycle; additional optional modules include: crop product quality and marketing; forage crop production; farm management; students take a crop pests field course in the summer term at the end of stage 2 in addition to taking part in outside farm visits in stage 3.