Programs & Offerings
Discover your future in agriculture at Sheridan College in Wyoming—where hands-on learning meets real-world experience. Whether you’re passionate about livestock, crops, natural resources, or ag business, Sheridan’s Agriculture Department offers flexible degree options designed to launch your career or prepare you to transfer to a four-year university. You’ll learn in the Mars Agriculture Center, a cutting-edge facility with high-tech labs, greenhouses, and even a commodities trading classroom. With small class sizes, expert instructors, and personalized support, you won’t just study agriculture—you’ll live it.
Mars Agriculture Center
The Mars Ag Center allows for more experiential agricultural learning with features such as an animal science lab, a soils and agroecology lab, an herbarium, a teaching greenhouse, a computerized commodities trading floor classroom, and other high-tech classrooms.
The Sheridan College is the only community college in the state that has a commodities 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.
The Sheridan College Agriculture program as four professional teaching greenhouses in addition to the outdoor field lab space.
The Herbarium houses over 2500 preserved, pressed plant specimens for plant ID and plant research activities.
The livestock barn is a 4,000 sq ft learning space that houses the colleges livestock. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Department Faculty
Meet our dedicated Agriculture Department faculty, a team committed to fostering excellence in agricultural education and guiding students toward success in the field.
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Angel Sparkman
Assistant Professor Ag; Instructor: Agricultural Business -
Mae Smith
Agriculture Program Director; Instructor: Agriculture and Rangeland Management -
Rebecca Atkinson
Associate Professor Animal Science -
Ami Erickson
Professor Horticulture; Instructor, Plant Sciences -
Quint Gonzales
Instructor, Farrier
Angel Sparkman
Mae Smith
Rebecca Atkinson
Ami Erickson
Quint Gonzales
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