Agriscience II

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Agriscience II

• Personal Career Development

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Agricultural Careers

• Objectives
• Classify occupations found in the agriculture
  industry.
• Determine training and educational requirements
  for agricultural careers.

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How much is 1 trillion dollars?
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Count out your money
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1,000,000,000,000

• 1 dollar bill every second
• 60 bills per minute
• 3,600 bills per hour
• 86,000 per day
• 31, 536,000 per year
• And continue counting for 31,710 years.

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Why is this important today?

• This is important to know because American
  agriculture is the worlds largest commercial
  industry , with a total of nearly 1 trillion

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7 Classifications Of Ag. Careers
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Production agriculture

• Farming and ranching
• Growing and marketing of field crops and
  livestock.
• 1/5 of all jobs in agriscience
• The average US farmer produces enough food and
  fiber for approximately 140 people.

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Horticulture

• Includes producing, processing and marketing
  fruits, vegetables , and ornamental plants
• High-labor High-income commodities

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Examples

• Turfgrass
• Shrubs
• Flowers
• Small trees

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Agricultural supplies and services

• Businesses that sell supplies or provide
  services for people in the agricultural industry.

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Examples of Supplies

• Seed
• Fertilizer
• Feed
• Lawn equipment
• Farm machinery
• Hardware
• Pesticides
• Building supplies

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Examples of Services

• Owners
• Managers
• Mill operators
• Truck drivers
• Sales personnel
• Book keeper
• Field representatives
• Clerks

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Agricultural Processing, Products, and
Distribution

• Those parts of the industry that haul, grade,
  process, package and market commodities from
  production sources.

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Pick a Partner

• 1st On a piece of paper, list all the
  ingredients on a deluxe cheeseburger.
• 2nd explain where the ingredients came from.

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The Cheeseburger

• Beef
• Mayonaise
• Tomato
• Lettuce
• Pickle
• Ketchup
• Mustard
• Relish
• Buns
• Sesame seed
• Onion
• Cheese
• Salt
• Pepper

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Forestry

• The industry that grows, manages, and harvests
  trees for lumber, posts, panels, pulpwood and any
  other commodities
• Americans have huge appetites for wood products

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Agricultural Mechanics

• Include the use of hand and power tools,

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Examples

• Woodworking,
• Metal working,
• Welding,
• Electricity,
• Plumbing,
• Tractor and machinery mechanics,
• Hydraulics,
• Terracing,
• Drainage,
• Painting and
• Constructions

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Renewable Natural Resources

• Involve the management of wetlands, rangelands,
  water, fish and wildlife.

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Agriscience Professions

• Professional jobs in various agriscience,
  agricultural industry, and agribusiness
  industries/careers.
• Span across all 7 divisions.

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Training and Educational Requirements for
Agricultural Careers
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Job Availability?

• Approximately 21 million work in agriculture
  fields
• 400,000 are needed to fill positions each year
  but only 100,000 are available to fill them.

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What does this mean?
Many Job Opportunities
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Education Requirements

• 20 of Agriculture jobs require a 4-year college
  education.
• Others require other forms of education.
• Technical College
• Certification Programs

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Early Experiences and Training

• Many programs have been created to provide
  elementary high school students with
  agricultural experiences.
• FFA
• Junior High High School
• 4-H
• 4th grade High School
• Boy Scouts
• Elementary High School

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Summarize

• Production agriculture
• Horticulture
• Agricultural supplies and services
• Agricultural processing, products, and
  distribution
• Forestry
• Agricultural mechanics
• Agriscience professions
• Renewable Natural Resources
• Education Requirements and Training

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Discussion

• Should employers have access to MySpace and
  FaceBook accounts when making decisions about
  hiring a person for a job?
• Should background checks be used in hiring
  decisions?

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Discussion

• Should some positions require more thorough
  background checks than others? (For example, a
  teaching position verses a trucking position)
• What may a potential employer think of an
  applicant that displays pictures on themselves
  drinking and smoking on line?