The research on agricultural career found that, between 2010 and 2015 an
estimated 54,000 jobs would be created annually in agricultural career include
renewable natural resources
(more facts about agriculture). It seems some hard to fill that job post. Seeing
these largest agricultural companies like General mills, DuPont, Pioneer,
Monsanto, and Cargill are helping agricultural study universities and students.
They are encouraging student to study or attracting to come into these agricultural careers. On that note this blog
is trying to provide some basic information about careers in agriculture (include
natural resources, horticulture, and food technicians, and animal sciences).
This list, like a agricultural mini career guide, covers almost all agricultural careers both traditional which requires
lower education level, and modern agricultural jobs, that require university
degree and associated degrees.
Remember agricultural business can make you make you billionaire, like
agricultural youngest billionaire Andrey Vereskiy.
Careers in agriculture list tells you core information like
job name, job descriptions, required qualification and average salary. Hope this
will help you for some extent. Now
Enjoy.
Note: These title of careers in agriculture are in
alphabetical orders.
List of Careers In Agriculture Including Job Descriptions
And Average Salaries.
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| Career in agriculture pic credit: nationalcareersserviceuk |
1. Agricultural Career : Agricultural and Food Science Technicians
Job description of agricultural and food science
technicians.
Keeping and measuring the quality of foods are major work of
agricultural and food science technicians. They work under the supervision of
Scientists.
Required Qualification: Associate's Degree.
Average (Median) Salary: $32,760 per year or $15.75 per
hour.
2. Agricultural Career : Agricultural Chemist
Job descriptions of Agricultural Chemist.
Agricultural Chemist study of the agricultural substance to
develop new and improved products. Chemist work in the laboratories.
Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree
Average salary: $69,790 per year or $33.55 per hour.
3. Agricultural Career : Agriculture economic professors
Job description of economic professors.
Agriculture economic professors instruct students of public
and private universities, professional schools, or community colleges. And also
publish agricultural articles in their field of subjects.
Required qualification: Doctoral or professional degree.
Average salary: $62,050 per year.
4. Agricultural Career : Agriculture Engineers
Job description of agriculture engineers.
Agriculture engineers (biological and agricultural
engineers) do work related aquaculture to land farming to forestry; from
developing biofuels to improving conservation; from planning animal environments
to finding better ways to process food.
Required qualification: bachelor's degree.
Average salary: $71,090 per year or $34.18 per hour.
5. Agricultural Career : Agricultural reporters
Agricultural reporters inform the public about agricultural
news, events and other important information. They report for newspapers,
magazines, websites, television, and radio.
Required qualification: bachelor's degree
Average salary: $36,000 per year, or $17.31 per hour.
6. Agricultural Career : Agricultural workers
Job description of agriculture workers.
Agricultural workers maintain the quality of farms, crops,
and livestock by operating machinery and doing physical labor under the
supervision of agricultural managers.
Required qualification: willingness to do.
Average salary: $18,970 per year or $9.12 per hour.
7. Agricultural Career : Animal care and service workers
Job description of animal care and service workers.
Animal care and service workers care for the need of
animals. They feed, water, groom, bathe, and exercise pets and other nonfarm
animals. They work in kennels, zoos, stables, animal shelters, pet stores,
veterinary clinics and aquariums.
Required qualification: physically and emotionally fit for
that work.
Average salary: $19,780 per year or $9.12 per hour.
8. Agricultural Career : Aquatic biologist.
Job descriptions of aquatic biologist.
Aquatic biologist study the characteristics and habitats of
the aquatic livings.
Required qualification: Bachelor degree
Average salary: $57,430 per year or $39.44 per hour.
9. Agricultural Career : Biochemist
Job Descriptions of Biochemist.
Biochemist study the structures, compositions, reactions,
and other properties of biological substances, to develop new and improved
products.
Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree.
Average salary: $69,790 per year or $33.55 per hour.
10. Agricultural Career : Climatologist
Job Descriptions of Climatologist.
Climatologists study weather, climate and other aspects of
the atmosphere. They develop report and
forecasts their analysis of weather and climate data.
Required qualifications: Bachelor's Degree
Average salary: $87,780
per year or $42.20 per hour.
11. Agricultural Career : Conservation Scientist and Foresters
Job Descriptions of conservation scientist and foresters.
Conservation scientist and foresters manage overall land
quality of forests, park, rangelands, and other natural resources.
Required Qualification: Bachelor's degree
Average salary: $47,420
per year or $27.60 per hour.
12. Agricultural Career : Environmental analysts (Environmental
Scientists and specialists)
Job Description of Environmental analysts.
Environmental analysts, scientists and specialists work
toward protecting the environment.
Required qualification: Bachelor's degree
Average salary: $61,700
per year or $29.66 per hour.
13. Agricultural Career: Fishers and related fishing workers.
Fishers and related fishing workers catch and trap various
type of marine life.
Required qualification: less than high school.
Average salary: $25,590 per year or $12.30 per hour.
14. Agricultural Career : Food Processing occupations
Job descriptions of food processing occupations.
Food processing workers, cut, trim, process foods, like meat
and others. Food processing occupations include butchers and meat cutters,
(meat, poultry, and fish cutters, and trimmers, and operators and tenders of
roasting, baking and drying machinery.)
Required qualification: less than high school.
Average salary: $23,950 per year or $11.51 per hour.
15. Agricultural Career: Forest and conservation technicians
Job Descriptions of forest and conservation technicians.
Forest and conservation technicians measure
and improve the quality of forests, rangeland, and other natural areas.
Required qualifications: Associate's Degree.
Average Salary: $33,390 per year or $16.05 per hour.
16. Agricultural Career : Forest and conservation workers
Job Descriptions of forest and conservation workers.
Forest and conservation workers work under supervision of
conservation scientist and foresters and forest and conservation technicians.
Required qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent.
Average salary: $23,900 per year or $11.49 per hour.
17. Agricultural Career : Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural
Mangers
Job description of framers, ranchers, and other agricultural
managers.
These agricultural managers run establishments that produce
crops, livestock, and dairy products.
Required qualification: High school diploma or equivalent.
Average salary: $60,750 per year or $29.21 per hour.
18. Agricultural Career: Grain buyers
Job Descriptions of grain buyers.
Grain buyers buy agricultural products for organizational
use or resell.
Average salary: $58,360
per year or $28.06 per hour.
(This article will be completed very soon.)
(Disclaimer: To make this article and look like mini career guide
of agriculture, very trustable sources are taken as primary source and I have not modified any information given
from Department of Labor to give you more accurate information. It is
recommended, do further research from your own side and read Occupational
Outlook Handbook, published by bureau of labor statics both on web and paper
available.)
Source For Salary and Qualification: Bureau of Labor
Statistics, United States Department of Labor.
Job descriptions: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Wikipedia.)
(Average salaries are median salary of 2010. This is latest
published statistics of median salary. Remember bureau of labor statistics,
does survey after gap of few years because it takes length process. And data
from these surveys have more accuracy than others. So I have applied these
data.
