The Mars Agriculture Center (MAC) is a 16,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art building with top-notch learning environments for a variety of disciplines within the Sheridan College Ag Department. The MAC allows for experiential agricultural learning with features such as a live commodities trading classroom, updated lab spaces, 2.5 acre field lab, an herbarium, multiple greenhouses, a livestock barn, and farrier barn.
Explore The Facility
Commodities Trading Room
Sheridan College is the only community college in the state that has a live commodities trading room to provide real-time market analysis and education. The room is complete with 12 workstations, a live feed of the current stock prices that wraps around the room, and a floor-to-ceiling glass wall with a smart tint that can transform into a space to take notes.
Farrier Barn
The farrier barn is a large, heated space with non-slip flooring to accommodate a dozen live horses. There are 13 shoeing stations equipped with forges, anvils and tools needed to trim and shoe as well as additional space to learn.
Field Lab
Over 2.5 acres of field lab space, featuring hop vines, orchard, vineyard, and rangeland plant spaces as well as free range chickens. The hops are harvested every year in collaboration with our local Black Tooth Brewing Company.
Greenhouses
There are four professional greenhouses for dedicated to student learning in addition to the outdoor field lab space.
Herbarium
The Herbarium houses over 2500 preserved, pressed plant specimens for plant ID and plant research activities.
Livestock Barn
The livestock barn is a 4,000 sq ft learning space directly supporting our animal science program. It includes 8 pens that allow livestock to access both the inside and outside. Pens are adjustable, allowing for animals to be housed in one larger pen when they first arrive, providing comfort, or housed in individual pens, which is necessary when students conduct feeding trials to calculate feed efficiency.
Science Labs
The new science labs support small laboratory classes in plant science sciences, soil science, animal science, and genetics. They are equipped with a variety of modern technological tools used in these areas of science.
Community Partners
Whether you’re an Ag student or biology major, hands-on learning is always a part of our curriculum. Faculty members have partnerships with community businesses, land management organizations, and livestock producers allowing students to gain direct hands-on experiences.
Map & Directions
Sheridan College is located at 1 Whitney Way on the south end of town in Sheridan, Wyoming. The Mars Agriculture Center is located at the southwest corner of campus. For more information, and to print the campus map please see below.