Career Opportunities

Production Agriculture

Cranium Cranium - The

game for your whole brain.

How is this like Production Agriculture?

The “General Practitioners” of Agriculture

General practitioner - A physician whose practice is not oriented to a specific medical specialty but instead covers a variety of medical problems.

An Agriculturalist works with the preparation of agricultural products for human consumption; they are the "general practitioner" of the agricultural industry.

Trivia: The game “Operation” came out in 1965.

What does this mean? If Agriculturalists are the “general

practitioners” of the ag industry, it means that they need to have knowledge in many areas of agriculture.

Like the game Cranium, agriculturalists need to use their whole brain and have numerous skills.

Technological AdvancesBasic Checkers

X Box 360

Descartes Moment

What do you know about this topic? What do you think you understand? What don’t you understand?

Technological Advances

Horse-drawn plow

Tractor with Auto Steer

Technological Advances

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Rapidly Changing Technology 2004 statistics regarding the

adoption of technology by production agriculturalists 30% have attended college 83% have computers 75% have cell phones 33% use the internet

Rapidly Changing Technology 2002 statistics regarding the

adoption of technology by production agriculturalists 35 years old & younger 92% have computers 90% have cell phones 88% use the internet 19% use GPS

Careers in Production Ag

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Using Outside Resources Production agriculturalists,

farmers/ranchers, have to be entrepreneurs in a complex agribusiness. Many successful farmers recognize that they need to be as efficient as possible with their resources of time, labor, equipment, and their money. This means acquiring outside resource people.

Those that fail to recognize this, may get “bumped” out by those that do. Sorry!

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