Research has shown that active student participation in university registered student organizations (RSOs) has been positively correlated to academic performance. Students who actively engage in RSOs tend to have higher GPAs and are more satisfied with their overall collegiate experience. While the benefits of participation in organizations are numerous, recent research found nearly one-third of students spend no time on extracurriculars weekly. The purpose of our study was to identify barriers to active participation in department of agriculture RSOs at Illinois State University. Using a census design, we administered an electronic questionnaire to collect data via Qualtrics to all 362 undergraduate agriculture students. Our efforts yielded a response rate of 22.9% (n = 83). Our findings show that an equal number of agriculture students (48.2%) spend zero hours per week and one to five hours per week on activities of their RSOs, while only 3.6% spend more than six hours a week on their extracurriculars. Slightly over half (51.7%) felt satisfied with their overall involvement in campus life beyond the classroom, while only 39.8% felt satisfied with their agriculture RSO involvement. The leading barriers to participation in RSOs included timing or location of events, off campus work, lack of knowledge about activities, not living near campus, and feelings like they do not belong. Respondents indicated that the top factors that could increase their participation would be having meetings time that fit better with their schedules, better advertising of the RSO, less academic work, having a friend in the RSO, and being more aware of the time commitment to participate. The Illinois State University Agriculture Department has a lot to offer students with their RSOs. It is recommended student leadership in these agriculture RSOs review these findings and make modifications to their schedules and recruitment efforts to yield a higher participation rate for potential members.