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AFNR Cluster Validation
Content - Is the content still valid? Level of Processing - Is this an something students in high school can learn about?
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- Understand how issues, trends, technologies, and public policies impact systems in the AFNR cluster.
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- Understand the nature and scope of the AFNR cluster and the role AFNR plays in society and the economy.
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- Examine and summarize importance of health, safety, and environmental management systems in AFNR organizations to express their importance
to organizational performance and regulatory compliance.
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- Demonstrate stewardship of natural resources in AFNR activities.
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- Understand the breadth of career opportunities and means to those opportunities in each of the AFNR career pathways.
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- Understand the interaction among plant, animal, economic, and environmental systems in the production of food, fiber, and fuel and conservation
of natural resources.
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- Apply appropriate management planning principles in AFNR business enterprises.
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- Use record keeping to accomplish AFNR business objectives, manage budgets, and comply with laws and regulations.
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- Manage cash budgets, credit budgets, and credit for an AFNR business using generally accepted accounting principles.
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- Develop a business plan for an AFNR enterprise or business unit.
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- Use sales and marketing principles common to agribusiness systems to accomplish AFNR business objectives.
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- Understand scope, historical development, and trends impacting the animal systems industry.
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- Recognize and interpret animal behaviors and execute protocols for safe and humane handling.
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- Design and provide proper animal nutrition given desired outcomes for performance, development, reproduction, and/or economic production.
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- Understand and apply principles of scientific animal reproduction.
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- Evaluate environmental factors affecting animal performance and implement procedures for enhancing performance and animal health to
demonstrate an effective application of principles to optimize performance.
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- Classify, describe, evaluate, and select animals based on anatomical and physiological characteristics.
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- Apply principles of effective animal health care.
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- Use analytic procedures and instruments to manage environmental systems activities.
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- Examine the impact of public policies and regulations on environmental services facility operations.
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- Facilitate development of solutions to environmental issues, problems, and applications using scientific principles of meteorology, soil science,
hydrology, microbiology, chemistry, and ecology.
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- Operate environmental service systems (e.g., pollution control, water treatment, wastewater treatment, solid waste management, and energy) to
manage a facility environment.
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- Use tools, equipment, machinery, and technology common to tasks in environmental system services.
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- Develop and implement procedures and to ensure safety, sanitation, and quality in the food product and processing facilities.
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- Apply principles of nutrition, biology, microbiology, chemistry, and human behavior to development of food products.
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- Select and process food products for storage, distribution, and consumption.
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- Understand the food industry and the historical developments of food products and processing.
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- Plan and conduct natural resource management activities that apply logical, reasoned, and scientifically based solutions to natural resource issues
and goals.
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- Understand interrelationships between natural resources and humans needed to manage natural resource systems.
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- Apply knowledge of natural resource systems to ensure responsible and sustainable production and processing of natural resources.
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- Practice responsible control and management procedures and techniques to protect or maintain natural resources.
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- Develop and implement a plant management plan for a given production goal that accounts for environmental factors.
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- Understand application of classification, plant anatomy, and plant physiology to plant production and management.
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- Propagate, culture, and harvest plants and plant products.
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- Exercise elements of design common to professionals in plant systems to enhance an environment for a variety of purposes (e.g., floral, forest,
landscape, farm).
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- Apply physical science principles and engineering applications related to mechanical equipment, structures, and biological systems to solve
problems and improve performance in AFNR power, structural, and technical systems.
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- Operate and maintain mechanical equipment related to AFNR power, structural, and technical systems.
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- Service and repair mechanical equipment and power systems used in AFNR power, structural, and technical systems.
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- Plan, build, and maintain AFNR structures.
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- Use control, monitoring, geospatial, and other technologies in AFNR power, structural, and technical systems.
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- I agree to accept the above CTE standards for Education and Training in their current format.
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