Careers in Horticulture

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Careers in Horticulture
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Objectives

• Objective 3 Identify career opportunities in
  plant science.
• Identify and describe the major areas of plant
  science.
• Identify career opportunities in plant science,
  and determine the education and training they
  entail.

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Career Opportunities in Plant Science

• Greenhouse caretaker
• Plant propagator
• Orchard Care Taker
• Pesticide Applicator
• Groundskeeper
• Tractor Operator
• Combine harvester

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Career Opportunities in Plant Science

• Greenhouse manager
• Golf course manager
• Pesticide dealer
• Crop supply salesperson
• Greenhouse supply salesperson

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Career Opportunities in Plant Science

• Crop marketing specialist
• Crop production specialist
• Fertilizer technologist
• Erosion control scientist
• Soil conservationist
• Seed technologist
• Turf grass specialist

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Graduate level careers in Plant Science

• Plant geneticist
• Plant breeder
• Biotechnologist
• Genetic engineer
• Plant pathologist
• Plant physiologist
• Statistician
• Weed scientist

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Some of the skills needed in the horticulture
industry

• Growing Skills
• Watering
• Fertilizing
• Transplanting
• Seed sowing
• Disease control

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Mechanical Skills

• Structure erection and maintainence
• Equipement repair
• Plumbing, heating and cooling

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Marketing Skills

• Advertizing
• Price Setting
• Quality Control
• Post Harvest Storage
• Grading
• Packaging
• Shipping

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Administrative Skills

• Hiring/ Firing
• Coordianted responsibility
• Scheduling
• Financial elements
• Records/computer use
• Ordering
• Scheduling planting
• Billing

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Legical Skills

• Pesticide laws and regulations
• Interstate transportation
• Taxes
• Local and state ordinances and laws

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Objective 3.2List and explain the types of
growers

• Wholesale grower
• Sells to retailers
• May not sell to the public
• I.e. Parks in Van Buren
• Retailers
• Sells to the public
• Ft. Smith Garden Center
• Shruams

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• Propagator
• All phases of propagation
• Maintains light, temperature and moisture
  conditions

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Growers

• In charge of production of one large greenhouse
• Oversees every element of their assigned
  greenhouse

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Head Grower

• Over sees several growers
• Reports to a range superintendent

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Range Superintendent

• Works underneath the owner
• Over sees multiple head growers and those under
  them

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Production Manager

• In charge of 1 crop
• Orders materials, supplies and fertilizer to
  produce the crop

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Marketing Manager

• Grading, postharvest and storage, packaging and
  shipment
• Orders cartons, containers and packaging
  materials
• In charge of the graders and packers

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Shipping Room Manager

• Handles the crop from the time it comes from the
  greenhouse until it is packed
• In charge of the graders and packers

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Other Career Areas

• Soil person
• Drivers
• General labor