Kubota has a long and proud history of supporting agriculture academia under its “For Earth, For Life” mantra. The company has a vested interest in preparing youth for leadership, responsibility, and service to a global society, and is committed to harnessing the research-intensive power of the university system to help improve its own agriculture, construction and turf equipment.
These collective projects and continued innovations will work to improve people’s lives where the company operates and beyond. Departments throughout the company are partnering with colleges and universities to provide training on a wide variety of agricultural, construction and turf topics for Kubota dealers, employees, students and organizations, with a goal to enhance equipment knowledge, safety and efficiency through hands-on experience and expert instruction.
Here’s a look a few of these innovative programs:
- Texas A&M University System and Kubota embarked on a partnership in 2017 within its Research and Development program to test equipment performance in various applications within the University system’s testing facilities. The research conducted by Texas A&M students, staff and faculty touches on five societal challenges: feeding the world, protecting the environment, improving health, enriching youth, and growing the economy. For more information, visit www.tamus.edu.
- When faculty members of the University of Georgia, Athens (UGA), College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, recognized the need for their county extension agents to gain more experience in hay and forage production, they asked Kubota to provide the equipment expertise. As a result, Kubota provided hay product experts to help UGA on their workshop, “Producing High Quality Hay and Improving Animal Performance,” which provides in-depth hay production training to a number of county extension agents. Farmers often seek the expertise of their county extension service within their state as a principal resource for research and knowledge. This program partnership is great way for Kubota to help farmers by training agents. For more information on this important work, visit https://extension.uga.edu/
- Ohio State University, Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI), which offers 26 associate degrees, has been named one of five top trade schools in the United States. ATI partnered with Kubota’s Tech College training program this fall, where students will have the opportunity to be trained using high-tech Kubota equipment in areas such as diagnostics, preventative maintenance and major repair.
“Skilled technicians are the backbone of every Kubota dealership around the country, and the demand for those skills is only increasing,” said Stacy B. Schroeder, senior manager of Kubota University. “We are excited to partner with ATI to establish the Kubota Tech College training program to build the qualified workforce needed to support the growth and prosperity of Ohio and its residents and beyond. We'll closely collaborate to identify and build the most relevant skills students will require to successfully enter the rural workforce in the equipment industry.”
For more information on Ohio State ATI, visit
https://ati.osu.edu/.
