I. Introduction............................................... 1

II. Five Careers for a Graduate of Agricultural Studies. 1

A. Self-Employed Farmer............................ 1

B. Sales (Equipment, Chemical, Seed)............. 1

C. Ground Truthing Manager........................ 1

D. Teacher.............................................. 2

E. Farm Manager...................................... 2

III. Summary................................................... 2

Works Cited............................................................... 3

Agriculture is a vast and expanding world for many people here in the mid-west. This is not a career to be taken lightly, since it has it's ever-changing highs and lows; which attract people and also discourage them too. Deciding what a graduate wants to do in agriculture is a difficult process, I know since I am in the process right now.

A self-employed farmer is one that you see out in the field early in the morning and late at night. He does not work for a large company growing crops for them; he grows them for him to sell. The farmer's main goal is to raise the most productive crop he can, earning the best profit available, and working with the land to keep it sustainable condition. A variety of crops can be grown, and animals can be raised too. This is a job that one must truly love and be devoted to for if one is not then many things can go wrong and they will not succeed.

Farm manager's is a job where you can work from the comfort of your pick-up. You are in charge of some land that was put into your hands to manage. The manager is the middleman between a person who owns the ground and the person who rents it and raises a crop on it. He is also in charge to make sure the ground used to its optimal level, and will make suggestions to the owner on what to do to make it a better farm. He then will work it out with the farmer how they will get it done to the specifications that the owner wanted. Also the manager is in charge of keeping on top of the crop progress and makes sure there is no real problem with disease or pests.

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