Decision
8. Choose ONE option, and then choose again inside it
Required Often forgotten
Agronomy, Horticulture or Field Botany. Whichever you pick you do ALL of its requirements, and one of those requirements is itself a choice between alternatives. This one requirement is most of the badge.
Notes and warnings
Warning. Decide this one early, and decide it on whether you can wait for a growing season. Option B ALWAYS requires one, all four of its alternatives plant something and keep it alive through a season. Option A requires one for Corn, Cotton and Oil Crops, but not for Forage Crops or Small Grains. Option C requires none at all. Nothing else on this badge has anything like that effect on how long it takes.
Note. You choose twice, not once: the option, and then an alternative inside it. Option B makes you choose a third time, at 8(B)(3). Answer the option question above and everything that does not apply to you will disappear from this page.
What this is made of
Where this step comes from
- Plant Science Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-12-31), Requirement 8 · States that ONE option is chosen and each of its requirements completed.