{"id":9368,"date":"2015-09-17T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2015-09-17T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:43:10","slug":"fields-great-job-opportunities-college-graduates-modern-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/fields-great-job-opportunities-college-graduates-modern-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Ag fields with great job opportunities for college graduates &#8211; from Modern Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/college-graduates.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9369\" alt=\"college graduates\" src=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/college-graduates-400x300.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Andrew Amenlinckx<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2015\/Q2\/national-report-details-expected-job-openings-in-ag,-related-fields.html\" target=\"_blank\">a study led by Purdue University<\/a>\u00a0determined that in the next five years there would be close to 60,000 job openings annually in fields related to agriculture, food, the environment, and renewable natural resources. We spoke to three professors at\u00a0Purdue\u2014a major research university located in West Lafayette, Indiana, which is consistently ranked as having one of the top agricultural sciences programs in the country (and world for that matter)\u2014on which professions are emerging in this field.<\/p>\n<h2>Agricultural and Biological Engineering<\/h2>\n<p>Agricultural engineers can focus on machine design, design, and processes of getting food produced at the farm to your plate, or environmental challenges working with soil, water, and air, says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ABE\/People\/ptProfile?resource_id=1608\" target=\"_blank\">Bernard Engel<\/a>,\u00a0head of Purdue\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ABE\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering<\/a>. Careers include working for equipment manufactures in the agricultural, forestry, construction, and military industries. On the environmental and natural resources end, there are jobs with various government agencies or consulting firms.<\/p>\n<p>Engel\u00a0says the all of the programs in his department are in high demand right now.\u00a0\u201cMany of the advances in agriculture right now are coming in this area. The future looks bright as well, given expectations of even more technology being used in agriculture in the future,\u201d he says in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Biological engineers deal with issues that include food processes, things like making food taste better or making it last longer; and cellular and biomolecular engineering, which concerns \u201cfinding better ways to get value from by-products or getting energy from biological materials.\u201d The food industry is a major employer. Engel says there is also a demand in research and development for these graduates, not only in the food and pharmaceutical industries, but also in\u00a0genetic engineering in plants.<\/p>\n<p>Agricultural Systems Management graduates help make agricultural technology easier to understand and use, says Engel, and students in this area are \u201chighly sought after in careers with machinery, grain handling, and precision technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Soil Science<\/h2>\n<p>Students can focus on soil ecology, chemistry, physics, conservation, and soil landscapes\u2014mapping the soil attributes of a certain area\u2014among other fields of study.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ag.purdue.edu\/oap\/Pages\/Profile.aspx?strAlias=jgraveel&amp;intDirDeptID=18\" target=\"_blank\">John Graveel<\/a>, an agronomy professor and director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/nres\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources and Environmental Science program<\/a>\u00a0at Purdue, says job prospects for soil scientists right now are very strong. Job opportunities include working for state and federal agencies, environmental consulting firms, and other groups, like the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Conservancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Soil science students are getting some training in<a href=\"http:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.com\/encyclopedia\/geographic-information-system-gis\/\" target=\"_blank\">geographical information systems<\/a>\u00a0[GIS],\u201d Graveel tells<i>Modern Farmer<\/i>\u00a0in a phone interview. (GIS is a computer system that is used for collecting and displaying data as it relates to geographic points on the Earth\u2019s surface.) \u201cIt\u2019s hugely in demand right now by consulting firms to have people on staff who know how to do GIS.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Agricultural Economics<\/h2>\n<p>Agricultural economics is the practice of applying economic principles to public and private decisions made in the agricultural sector, explains\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agecon\/Pages\/Profile.aspx?strAlias=kfoster\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Foster<\/a>, head of Purdue\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agecon\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Agricultural Economics Department<\/a>. The field includes sales and marketing, agribusiness, farm management, policy making, and natural resource and energy economics.<\/p>\n<p>Job prospects are \u201cpretty strong\u201d for graduates in this \u201cheavily data and metric driven\u201d field, Foster\u00a0says. \u201cWe placed 98 percent of our graduates last May by the end of the summer.\u00a0Well over 100 students got jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pro tip: Foster says because we\u2019re entering an era of data-driven decision making, \u201cthe students who can position themselves to be strong from an analytical and problem-solving perspective are going to have an edge in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All three professors agree on what\u00a0students interested in these fields should be focusing on: math and science. You get a bonus for taking part in extracurricular activities that help build leadership, communication, and organizational skills.<\/p>\n<h2>Startups<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, let\u2019s not forget the entrepreneurs out there who are tech savvy and like to go it alone. Agricultural technology startups are blooming right now. Last year the industry grew by 170 percent and had more than $2.36 billion in investment, according to the website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/04\/01\/the-new-queen-of-green\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the agricultural tech industry is doing well because it\u2019s been overlooked for awhile. I think that\u2019s really going to change and it\u2019s going to continue to grow,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2015\/07\/edyn-smart-water-sensor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Aramburu<\/a>, founder and CEO of Edyn, a startup that makes a smart watering sensor for crops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2015\/09\/agriculture-jobs\/?utm_source=Modern+Farmer+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0ea6a52b51-Thursday_September_10_20159_10_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e8a89c7e43-0ea6a52b51-75434897&amp;mc_cid=0ea6a52b51&amp;mc_eid=b19bed16a3\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Amenlinckx Earlier this year,\u00a0a study led by Purdue University\u00a0determined that in the next five years there would be close to 60,000 job openings annually in fields related to agriculture, food, the environment, and renewable natural resources. We spoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/fields-great-job-opportunities-college-graduates-modern-farmer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Four Ag fields with great job opportunities for college graduates - from Modern Farmer - CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/fields-great-job-opportunities-college-graduates-modern-farmer\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four Ag fields with great job opportunities for college graduates - from Modern Farmer - CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Andrew Amenlinckx Earlier this year,\u00a0a study led by Purdue University\u00a0determined that in the next five years there would be close to 60,000 job openings annually in fields related to agriculture, food, the environment, and renewable natural resources. 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