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Section 5. CAREER PATHWAYS, CAREERS, EXAMPLE SAES

Agribusiness Systems Career Pathway systems careers involve using technology to coordinate all activities that contribute to production, processing, , distribution, financing, and development of agricultural .

Careers associated with Agribusiness Systems Agricultural Loan Officer, Agribusiness Manager, International Ag. Marketing Specialists, Marketing Communications Manager, Financial Officer

Example SAEs related to Agribusiness Systems ● Be a sales associate at a garden or supply store. ● Operate custom heifer raising service ● Become an agricultural consultant for farm news for ● Operate custom hog raising local radio or newspapers ● Package fresh or gift packs ● Conduct a study of trading over a period ● Pre-sell fresh meat to clients on a weekly basis of time ● Pre-sell fresh seafood to clients on a weekly basis ● Conduct insect scouting for a corn company. ● Pre-sell fresh in family portions delivered ● Create a custom labor venture: mow pastures, weekly remove undesirable weeds from paint ● Preserve for home use outbuildings, etc. ● Processing creamed corn in a ● Create and produce a weekly television or radio facility show about FFA and ● Produce a weekly column for the local newspaper ● Create digital video programs about FFA about agricultural issues ● Design a computer application plan for some ● Provide a custom barbecue service for community agricultural facility or program ● Provide a custom feed for . Tap the ● Design custom computer programs using Excel or organic, all natural, no-chemical market. other software to solve problems for producers ● Provide a hand weeding crew for local ● Form a with other students and share in peanut/vegetable profits of a greenhouse ● Provide a making business at home; can be ● Job placement in , restaurant, etc. sold if are met ● Job placement with local florist ● Provide basic internet and email training to ● Job-shadow agribusiness professionals, visits to producers to increase their level of confidence in to interview personnel, educational using technology tours, etc. ● Provide custom hay baling and/or hauling ● Maintain the chapter webpage ● Provide farm sign business (manufacture, sale, ● Make business cards, stationary, etc., for install, and maintain) or chapter members ● Provide livestock hauling ● Marketing Christmas trees (at home or school ● Provide small engine maintenance and repair service provided facilities) ● Provide systematic maintenance and service on ● Offer a custom parts and supplies delivery business outdoor power equipment at home or at school to in your county provided facilities ● Operate a business that computerized farmers' ● Purchase and resale aerial photographs from tax records office to local landowners ● Operate a custom spraying service ● Remove jugs monthly from farms and ● Operate a hay hauling service transport to landfill ● Operate a lawn maintenance/mowing service ● Research the differences among farm ● Operate a clean out service software systems ● Operate custom combining service ● Sell ready to freeze processed vegetables 15

● Start a basic computer help service for area Ag ● Volunteer to do website and brochure development producers for local Ag businesses ● Start a composting business by buying cow ● Work as a grain tester/handler for a local elevator from local farmers, bagging for resale ● Work as a service provider in grocery store ● Start a farm sitting business for vacationing farmers. ● Work as a teaching assistant for your local ● Start a franchise of existing fruit/vegetable stand agricultural teacher and FFA advisor ● Start a kerosene route for homeowners (probably ● Work as an assistant sales manager at a turf little demand in the summertime) equipment company ● Start a MSDS compliance business by compiling ● Work as an intern for the local agriculture and maintaining current sheets for farms and in department business in your county ● Work at a seed corn dealership ● Start a recycling business (collecting and selling ● Work at the local feed store newspapers and plastics to recycling ) ● Work for a local tax accountant that handles ag ● Start an agricultural business promotion business. customers (Sell custom caps, T-shirts with farm or Ag business ● Work for an ag auctioneer service names or logos to clients.) ● Work for an ag marketing services company ● Start an agriculture photography service (Animals, ● Work for an service provider equipment, barns, families, children with animals, ● Work for local cement company that installs ag show animals) applications ● Start local farm produce sale paper and sell ads to ● Work for the local ag insurance agency farmers ● Write "How To" pamphlets to sell at local garden ● Start service that cleans leaves from gutters supply stores. (Ex. How to Grow Tomatoes, etc.) ● Volunteer to design a website for a local agriculture ● Write news articles on agriculture or FFA for local group newspaper for Ag. Communications

Power, Structure and Technical Systems Career Pathway: Careers in this pathway involve applying of , power hydraulics, pneumatics, electronics, structures and controls to agriculture, in order to develop ways to improve the processing of agricultural products.

Careers associated with Power, Structure and Technical Systems , Diesel Mechanic, Welder, Farm Equipment Mechanic, Global Positioning Technician

Example SAEs related to pathway ● Assist with GPS mapping for an agronomic services applications to agriculture company. ● Construct and sale birdhouses and feeders ● Build a patio for the home ● Construct and sale lawn furniture made of PVC. ● Build frames for raised beds for ● Construct bins to sell ● Build garden sheds for homeowners. ● Construct concrete projects for the home or farm ● Build handicap ramps in local community ● Construct or recondition a welding project (such as ● Build picnic tables/sale to schools and local a trailer, cooker, etc.) at home or in school provided community facilities ● Complete home or farmstead improvement ● Construct prefabricated wooden fence panels for construction activities sale to local hardware, building supply stores ● Conduct general home maintenance ● Construct prototypes of hydraulic systems ● Construct a hydro ram pump and calculate the ● Construct spray rigs for four wheelers efficiency and water delivery rate ● Constructing and marketing woodworking projects ● Construct a utility building (birdhouses, dog houses, etc.) ● Construct a wind powered generator and show its ● Constructing metal projects 16

● Contract with local EMCs or Power Companies to someone else. remove bolts, wire, etc from old power poles. (Sell ● Run a custom fence building and repair business copper for recycling.) ● Start a chain saw basic maintenance & service ● Contract with school system to maintain and business service lawn care equipment ● Start a custom spraying service that utilizes GPS ● Create a demonstration model that shows proper ● Start a custom vehicle refurbishing or painting and improper welding techniques business ● Create a teaching model to show how a small gas ● Start a detailing business for cleaning farm engine works and sell to FFA chapters equipment on the farm (wash, wax, clean, ● Cut out and paint lawn figures for sale maintain) ● Design, build and sell lawn ornaments ● Start a farm equipment tire disposal business. (Turn ● Electrical repair service old tires into livestock feeders.) ● Install electrical circuits or wiring system at home ● Start a farm fence maintenance business (cleaning ● Install plumbing fixtures or plumbing system in fencerows, repairing) your own building ● Start a farm fencing company for custom work ● Lawn mower maintenance service ● Start a pallet manufacturing business ● Machine and rebuild engine parts ● Start a small engine repair service ● Making craft items from wood, metal, or concrete ● Start an equipment locating business. Match folks to sale at arts and craft shows with something for sale with folks who want to buy ● Making personalized signs for sale something ● Manage the steel inventory in the Ag shop ● Test the strength of different types of welds ● Map fields, weeds, etc. for producers using GPS ● Wire a home shop, utility room, barn, or tree house and GIS ● Wire buildings for lights and receptacles ● Operate a lawn mower service and repair business ● Work as a diesel mechanic assistant ● Paint agricultural buildings and farm houses ● Work as a surveyor assistant ● Placement in a parts store ● Work as an agricultural mechanics aide ● Pour concrete forms for machine sheds or other ● Work as an assistant for an auto, truck or tractor buildings mechanic ● Provide a poultry house maintenance preparation ● Work at a welding operation business ● Work for a local electrician ● Provide custom painted mailboxes and stands ● Work for a plumbing business ● Provide maintenance for school shop equipment ● Work for a small engine repair shop overhaul and ● Repair and rebuild damaged pallets for businesses repair ● Research the biggest challenges producers face ● Work for an irrigation service company when adopting new technology ● Work in a welding shop ● Research the differences in various styles of tillage ● Work on plumbing waste systems, air and water equipment systems ● Research the energy use of different types of ● Work with county soil and water - assist lighting systems in farm buildings in measuring and design ● Research the water savings accomplished by new ● Working at a building supply business irrigation technologies ● Working with a farm equipment dealer ● Restore a tractor and sell it or restore a tractor for

Animals Systems Career Pathway in this pathway involves knowledge in the areas of genetics, nutrition, reproduction, growth and development of food and companion animals, inspecting livestock, grading livestock food products, purchasing livestock, sales, and marketing.

Careers associated with Animal Systems 17

Geneticist, Nutritionists, Physiologist, Biomaterials, Engineering, Farm and Managers

Example SAEs related to Animal Systems ● Assist a horse group that assists handicapped ● Provide a kennel cleaning service students ● Provide a lost home for homeless pets ● Assist at a horse stable ● Provide a meat processing service ● Assist at local animal shelter ● Provide a poultry processing service ● Board horses ● Provide equine training services ● Build a backyard poultry research project ● Provide fish pond management ● Buy and show a calf at fairs ● Provide fishing and hiking services for area youth ● Care and incubation of hatching eggs groups and elementary students ● Compare weight gain of chicks fed different feed ● Raise a beef heifer for show rations ● Raise a dog for show ● Conduct a survey of all livestock operations in your ● Raise a horse for show area ● Raise a market hog for show ● Conduct feed trials for growing broiler chickens ● Raise a market steer for show ● Conduct surveys of wildlife populations ● Raise and sell farm fresh eggs ● Contract finish swine ● Raise and sell purebred dogs ● Coordinate and conduct a horse safety camp ● Raise and train hunting dogs ● Create a classroom pet adoption program with ● Raise breeding for show elementary schools ● Raise breeding swine for show or breeding ● Develop a cow-calf operation ● Raise catfish in cages ● Develop a small swine operation ● Raise chinchillas, hamsters, gerbils and sell them ● Develop a stocker operation on the Internet ● Discover the number of pet owners in community ● Raise dairy goats and their priority concerns ● Raise dairy heifers for show ● Form a cooperative with other students to raise ● Raise dairy replacement heifers broiler chickens ● Raise dogs for sale ● Grow catfish for sale to local cafes ● Raise fish for the state fish and game department ● Maintain aquariums for local businesses ● Raise fish in an system ● Maintain the school's aquaculture system ● Raise fish in cages in a pond or other body of water ● Manage a small aquatics lab ● Raise fish in tanks or floating cages - research the ● Manage livestock show and supplies for FFA rate of growth based on factors such as temp. and chapter amount of feed given ● Operate a pay-to-fish business ● Raise game birds to sell for the training of bird ● Operate a pet sitting service dogs ● Organize and/or run a petting zoo at local fairs or ● Raise game fish for sale to stock ponds farmers markets ● Raise indigenous snakes and release into the wild ● Participate in a mentorship program with a (at approved area) each summer taxidermist ● Raise llamas ● Plan and implement a "hands on" livestock field ● Raise market goats for show trip ● Raise market lambs for show ● Produce feeder pigs ● Raise market pigs ● Provide a beehive rental service for farms and ● Raise meat birds (chickens, turkeys, ducks) to the gardens desired weight and sell to consumers ● Provide a deer processing service ● Raise meat goats ● Provide a home animal care service ● Raise mice, hamsters, or gerbils ● Provide a horse training service ● Raise miniature cattle ● Provide a horseshoeing service ● Raise miniature horses

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● Raise pheasants or quail to be released into the wild owners) ● Raise poultry for show ● Start an Easter egg business ● Raise quail or other game birds for flight and meat ● Study the effects of genetic selection in groups of ● Raise rabbits for pets or meat animals animals over time ● Raise replacement heifers ● Take care of classroom animals ● Raise special breeds of dogs ● Take small animals to nursing homes for visits ● Raise tropical fish ● Test the selection of young pigs based on grade and ● Raise tropical fish in aquariums lean yield at slaughter ● Raise worms, collect and sell to bait stores ● Train sporting dogs. (quail, rabbit, and retriever ● Raise your own livestock or specialty animals dogs) ● Research cage layers versus floor layers for egg ● Volunteer to assist with a livestock show or county production fair ● Research effectiveness of various estrus ● Work as a beef assistant synchronization hormones ● Work as a veterinarian assistant ● Research feed trial testing differing swine diets ● Work as a wildlife outfitter or guide ● Research methods of predator control, methods of ● Work at a dog kennel trapping ● Work at a horse operation or stables ● Research the best diet to help obese pets lose ● Work at a pet store weight ● Work at a poultry processing operation ● Run a trapping business ● Work at a university research lab caring for small ● Staff FFA displays that have farm animals at animals county and state fairs ● Work at a veterinary hospital ● Start a crawfish farm ● Work at livestock farms or a ranch ● Start a cricket ranch ● Work at pet shop ● Start a dog and cat boarding business for ● Work at the local livestock auction barn vacationing families ● Work for a pet sitting service ● Start a dog exercising business for elderly folks or ● Work for a predator control service sick people ● Work for a rodeo company caring for animals and ● Start a dog obedience school assisting with rodeos ● Start a dog obedience training service ● Work for the state game and fish department ● Start a dog walking business ● Work in the egg – packaging and ● Start a fish bait farm (mealworms, golden grubs, distribution etc.) ● Work in the grocery store meats department ● Start a gopher tortoise relocation service for ● Work on a beef cattle operation landowners ● Work on a dairy farm or heifer raising farm ● Start a honey production business (would work ● Work on a dairy operation well with above hive rental) ● Work on a poultry operation ● Start a pet grooming business ● Work on a sheep operation ● Start a small animal care business ● Work on a swine operation ● Start a turtle farm (sale to pet stores and pond ● Work on an exotic animal farm

Plant Systems Career Pathway Employment in this pathway involves ways to improve the nutritional and aesthetic value of plants and quality of .

Careers associated with Systems Agronomist, Entomologist, Plant Scientist, Golf Course Superintendent, Architect

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Example SAEs related to Plant Systems ● Adopt a community building for beautification applications, , growth regulator, etc. ● Adopt an area of school campus for beautification Observe/report results ● Build and maintain the compost units at the ● Grow for sale at a local ’s market. school ● Grow greenhouse plants on rented school ● Collect and laminate plants from a nursery greenhouse/coldframe space landscape CDE at various stages of growth ● Grow herbs ● Collect and sale dry/preserved native plant ● Grow liriope for sale materials (acorns, leaves, wiregrass); especially ● Grow organic cut flowers for farmer's market for floral design retail/wholesale ● Grow organic vegetables for a local café ● Collect, press, mount and identify plants that are ● Grow, and can or preserve and growing on campus vegetables ● Complete a report on 10 food plants that includes ● therapy origin, uses and cultivation practices ● Indoor plant rentals and care service for ● Conduct a plant growth and mineral deficiency businesses and offices experiment ● Landscape maintenance ● Conduct a plant growth and physiology ● Landscape pruning enterprise experiment in school Agriscience lab ● Native plant materials ● Conduct a supervised control burn and assess ● Offer a shrub care service (pruning, trimming and plant growth in the area cutting back shrubs, fertilization) ● Conduct timber cruise and mark timber to be ● Organic Vegetable Production thinned ● Plan plant-related activities and laboratories for ● Construct a garden arbor your class ● Construct backyard water gardens ● Plant and maintain a research plot on different ● Container gardening ornamental plants types of turf grasses ● Container gardening vegetables ● Plant raised beds and monitor the growth of ● Create a brochure about common houseplant plants diseases and how to take care of them ● Produce daylilies ● Create and market custom floral designs ● Produce farm crops (at home or school provided ● Develop a business making dried arrangements to facilities) sell ● Produce forage crops (at home or school provided ● Develop a park on public property facilities) ● Develop a test plot for various types of crops ● Produce fruit crops (at home or school provided ● Discover the best types of artificial lights for facilities) plant growth ● Produce greenhouse crop (at home or school ● Do a garden projection for school land and have provided facilities) it mapped out four years in advance ● Produce perennials from seed ● in floral design ● Produce turf grass (at home or school provided ● Establish a community roadside wildflower facilities) planting ● Produce vegetables for decoration, Indian corn, ● Garden plots at home or at school; produce crops mini pumpkins, gourds, etc. to market ● Produce watermelons ● Grow and sale mushrooms ● Propagate and market shrubs ● Grow and sell plants through the high school ● Provide a fruit tree pruning service greenhouse ● Provide a mulching service for urban gardeners. ● Grow and sell produce crops ● Provide walk-thru tours for elementary ● Grow and sell the red worms used to produce students compost ● Provide landscaping materials for local ● Grow crops with different mechanical/chemical businesses (Pine straw and rocks.)

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● Provide services to fertilize lawns, till garden ● Start your own forage testing service spots, prune trees, etc. ● Start your own lawn mowing business ● Raise a trial garden plot on school grounds ● Start your own pruning business (similar to UGA); seed companies may donate ● Start your own soil sampling business seed/plugs ● Start your own spraying business ● Raise and sell pumpkins ● Study effects of herbicide type and varying ● Raise and sell strawberries concentrations ● Raise Christmas trees ● Take care of beds/gardens on school ● Raise tomato seedlings and replant into one- property gallon pots to sell ● Take pictures and make a CD for plant or insect ● Rent houseplants to homeowners. (care for plants, identification change plants weekly) ● Test drought tolerance of different types of ● Rent indoor plants to teachers in your school watermelons ● Rent land from a neighbor and grow soybeans ● Test forage samples under various conditions to ● Rent-A-Plant -- rent plants for wedding, determine feed values banquets, parties (ferns and tropicals) ● Test organic versus inorganic on plant ● Research plant propagation techniques development ● Research project on how light intensity affects ● Use the school lab to manage small vegetable plant growth crop variety plots ● Research project on how light quality affects ● Volunteer to work with landowners to improve plant growth their forest lots ● Research the best turf grass varieties for your area ● Work as a range consultant ● Research the effect of various planting times on ● Work at a florist yields of green beans ● Work at a garden center ● Research the effectiveness of GM crops ● Work at a golf course ● Scout cotton or peanuts for producers ● Work at a nursery ● Sell and install water gardens ● Work at an area garden center ● Start a commercial flower upkeep business ● Work at the grain elevator during the summer ● Change hanging baskets, potted plants, and ● Work for a grain farmer window boxes for business. ● Work for a lawn and landscape care business ● Start a floral design business by creating table ● Work for a local flower shop doing design, plant centerpieces for sale at farmers markets, grocery care, deliveries, etc. stores, and vegetable stands ● Work for a sprinkler installation business ● Start a garden photography business ● Work for an service and collect soil ● Start a vegetable business samples ● Start a lawn irrigation installation business ● Work in a nursery business ● Start a renovating houseplant business ● Work in an ● Start a turf grass establishment business (seeding, ● Work in and monitor the school forest sodding, hydroseeding, etc.) ● Work on turf farm ● Start a vegetable transplant seedling business ● Work with county soil scientist to map soils

Food Products and Processing Systems Career Pathway Employment in this pathway focuses on discovering food sources and developing ways to process, preserve, package or store food. In addition, they create new products and inspect food processing to ensure food safety.

Careers associated with Products and Processing Systems Biochemists, Food Broker or Engineer, Technician, Quality Assurance Specialists

Example SAEs related to Food Products and Processing Systems 21

● Ask farmers for permission to glean fields for food ● Research why new food products fail to sell to give to homeless shelters ● Sell gourmet popcorn products ● Assist at an ● Sell picked vegetables ● Assist with produce selection at a grocery store ● Start a service to grow gardens for the elderly ● Collect wild mushrooms and sell to local vendors ● Start and manage a farmer’s produce market in ● Conduct food science experiments town ● Deliver sweet corn to customers for a local grower ● Study the impact of various styles of labels on ● Grow vegetables to give to local food pantry people's perception of the food product ● Help at a local fruit/vegetable stand ● Test ideas for new food products ● Make jams and jellies for sale at a farmer’s market ● Work at a cranberry farm ● Process and sell specialty products--bison, wild ● Work at a meat production plant flowers, ostrich ● Work at a produce facility that repackages and ● Process wild game for jerky, etc. sells produce ● Raise trout and sell to local restaurants ● Work at a vegetable or fruit factory ● Research genetic changes in various vegetables ● Work at local bakery ● Research genetic crossings in winter squash ● Work for an agricultural seed cleaning and ● Research incidents of food borne illnesses in a bagging company community ● Work for and/or operate a wild bird processing ● Research the development and use of edible service soybeans ● Work in a deli or bakery at a grocery store ● Research the environmental effects on ● Work to establish a community vegetable garden

Environmental Service Systems Career Pathway Employment in this pathway involves pollution control, recycling, waste disposal, public , hazardous waste management studies, and environmental research projects.

Careers associated with Environmental Service Systems Environmental Engineer, Hazardous Materials Handler, Health and Safety Sanitation, Toxicologists

Example SAEs associated with Environmental Service Systems ● Assist community watershed action groups ● Lead farm safety program for elementary students ● Assist landowners with installation of soil ● Monitor dust levels in air at various sites and conservation practices various times throughout year ● Assist local agencies with data collection for ● Monitor local air quality; record and report watersheds ● Monitor pollen counts in an area by working with ● Collect water samples for local or state agencies labs and weather stations ● Conduct a local water quality study ● Own and operate a water systems farm ● Conduct a tour of area farms and that (tiling) company practice effective pollution control ● Put together a town safety package---mark all ● Conduct workshops for homeowners on signs, fire hydrants and water drains composting ● Research area pollution concerns ● Create service to remove algae from area lakes and ● Research methods for preventing common fishing ponds accidents in agriculture dept. laboratory ● Develop and implement a farm safety class for ● Research rate of accidents on area farms and elementary school students compare to national averages ● Develop marshlands for game ● Research the effects of livestock feed on waste ● Develop plan to manage school food waste issues ● Establish green belts along streams on your farm ● Research the effects of various cover crops on 22

soil and water conservation district ● Sell radon detectors and collect samples ● Volunteer to monitor water quality for community ● Sell shop safety equipment door to door pond ● Start a leaf collection service in the fall and sell ● Work as a trencher for waste water lagoons mulch in the spring ● Work as a water quality lab assistant ● Start a manure removal business for acreage ● Work at a monitoring water quality owners ● Work for a company that installs plastic drainage ● Start a service to collect used pesticide containers tile farm fields ● Start a water sample collecting service ● Work for a testing laboratory ● Start a wood chipping service for people and/or ● Work for the natural resource and conservation sell the chips as mulch district ● Take part in a mentorship program with the local

Natural Resources Systems Career Pathway Employment in this pathway work to develop, maintain and manage forest and natural environment, develop and protect natural resources, and conservation of water and other natural resources.

Careers associated with Natural Resources Systems Conservation Officer, Water Quality Manager, Forestry Scientists Scientist, Wildlife Manager

Example SAEs associated with Natural Resources Systems ● Adopt a local stream to monitor water quality ● Construct deer stands for sale. (Portable and ● Assist a timber stand improvement specialist stationary) ● Assist Christmas tree farmers with planting and ● Construct duck nesting boxes for sale to trimming landowners ● Assist local city management with summer ● Construct turtle traps for pond owners (Use this in programs as a guide conjunction with turtle farm as a source of ● Bale and market pine straw breeding stock.) ● Build bat, bird, duck, squirrel houses for use or ● Container Pine Seedling Production sale ● Contract with a tree removal service to cut ● Buy unusable lumber from builder’s supply and firewood and remove fallen trees building sites; grind up or chip for mulch to sell ● Contract with landowners to plant food plots for ● Clean and prune wildlife ● Collect green pine cones (for seeds in the fall) ● Contract with local timber companies and ● Collect used Christmas trees and yard trimmings landowners to maintain boundary lines by painting Grind, compost, bag and sale as organic fertilizer and chopping ● Collect water run-off from school parking lot and ● Create a brochure on creating wildlife habitat in analyze for various pollution indicators backyards to share with community ● Collect, mount, and identify insects found on ● Create activities or laboratories for a natural school campus resources class ● Collect/market natural supplies (pine cones, ● Create and sell soil survey maps for area farmers acorns, nuts, corn shucks, etc.) to sell to craft and land owners stores ● Cut and sell firewood provided free by national ● Conduct a research project on how to prevent deer forests and state and local parks damage to a home garden ● Cut fire wood and sell at local stores ● Conduct a water quality study on area lakes or ● Cutting and/or marketing firewood streams ● Develop a backyard bird habitat ● Conduct endangered plant surveys for landowners ● Develop a backyard wildlife habitat ● Construct and sell game feeders ● Develop a forest/wildlife management plan for a 23

local landowner ● Research best practices for improving fish habitat ● Develop a schoolyard wildlife habitat in local ponds ● Develop and/or maintain a wildlife food plot on ● Research impact of using ATVs on public lands private or public land ● Research pines planted on tight spacing, water and ● Develop and/or maintain wetland area on private fertilize, and compare with regular spaced planted or public land pines ● Develop habitat trails for walking or hiking ● Research the benefits of using GIS mapping for ● Develop hunting ranges; set up indoor/outdoor natural resources ranges for bow competitions ● Research the effectiveness of habitat restoration ● Discover the native plants for your ecological area projects in your community and determine how prevalent they are currently ● Research the impact of various insects on woodlot ● Grow longleaf pine seedlings management ● Habitat construction, make brush piles, plant ● Serve as hunting guide wildlife habitat ● Soil conservation project on private or public land ● Maintain and supervise the school prairie or ● Start a bullfrog farm. (Sell fresh frog legs to local grounds restaurants.) ● Measure land for the local FSA office ● Start a custom forest herbicide application crew ● Measure timber on school forestry plot; determine (Must have forest commercial pesticide license.) volume and establish a management plan ● Start a fish fingerling nursery. (Catfish, trout, ● Monitor success rate of bluebird houses bream) ● Operate a trapping business ● Start a fish pond and teach small children and ● Organize and participate in a wildlife field day adults to fish ● Plan and develop a school nature trail ● Start a forest tree planting business ● Plan and develop an outdoor classroom ● Start an ornamental tree care service ● Plant a butterfly garden at school ● Start a Red Cockaded Woodpecker relocation ● Process and deliver seedlings to elementary school service students ● Start a rock store; sell for landscaping purposes. ● Provide a debris removal service along rivers and (Gravel, pebbles, stones) streams; sell driftwood and other items to ● Start a small Christmas tree plot consumers ● Start a wildlife food plot and native plant ● Provide a pond fertilization and testing service enhancement business for local landowners and ● Provide a soil sampling service for farms and hunting clubs lawns ● Start an equipment trailer fabrication business ● Provide custom dove shoots or quail hunts ● Stock and maintain fish populations in ponds ● Provide non-game wildlife management ● Study effect of fertilizer run-off into a stream or ● Provide outdoor material at camps pond ● Purchase bulk pine bark from sawmill, bag and ● Study effect of manure run-off into a stream or resale pond ● Purchase seedlings from GA Forestry Commission ● Study soil profiles from multiple locations in your and pot and grow out to sell community and develop a soil map ● Raise Christmas trees and sell at Christmas time ● Study the effects of excessive lawn chemicals on ● Raise fish for the state fish and game department wildlife ● Raise mallard or wood ducks for sale to pond ● Trap nuisance animals owners ● Volunteer to assist at campgrounds with cleanup ● Raise popular game birds; sell them for meat and and maintenance as taxidermy products ● Woodlot management and improvement including ● Raise wild game fowl for sale to local hunters firewood, habitat, etc. ● Remove lightning strike trees (insect damaged, ● Work at a bait shop mechanical injuries) for landowners ● Work at a saw mill

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● Work for a landowner to plant habitat for wild ● Work for parks and recreation in maintenance game ● Work for the fish and game department ● Work for a nature center ● Work in the logging business ● Work for a park service during the summer

Biotechnology Career Pathway Employment in this pathway allows you to unleash your inner scientist utilizing in agriculture to enhance plants, animals, and microorganisms. Professionals in this field often have a strong interest and background in how science can modify an organism’s genetic composition, also known as . Biotechnology assists in making plants more nutritious to eat while enabling fish to grow twice as fast. They even use biotechnology to solve global problems.

Careers associated with Biotechnology Systems Geneticist, Microbiologists, Biochemist, Lab Technician, Animal Scientists, Plant Scientist

Example SAEs associated with Biotechnology systems ● Analyze the impact major regulatory issues have ● Examine and synthesize the need for on public acceptance of biotechnology in (cellulosic bioenergy, etc.). agriculture ● Implement standard operating procedures for safe ● Analyze the implications of biotechs, laws and handling of biological/chemical materials in a lab public perceptions on biotechnology applications ● Investigate the relationship between past, current in agriculture and emerging applications of biotechnology in ● Apply biotechnology principles, techniques, and agriculture processes to enhance plant and animal care ● Monitor and evaluate processes used in the production synthesis of a molecule ● Apply biotechnology techniques to enhance the ● Operate advanced laboratory equipment and production of food by using microorganisms and measurement devices enzymes ● Perform ongoing maintenance of laboratory ● Conduct studies to evaluate treatment of a waste equipment according to standard operating product using a genetically engineered organism procedures ● Conduct studies to track the movement of ● Perform plant - breeding techniques (plant tissue transgenes in the environment culture, etc.) ● Design a bioremediation project including plans to ● Perform sterilization techniques for equipment in a evaluate effectiveness of the effort laboratory using standard operating procedures ● Design a study to examine public perceptions of ● Produce alcohol/biodiesel/methane and co- scientific arguments regarding biotechnology in products from biomass agriculture ● Research and categorize the types of ● Design and conduct experiments to evaluate an pharmaceuticals developed for animals and existing transgenic eukaryote humans through biotechnology ● Evaluate factors that influence gene expression ● Research factors and data regulatory agencies use ● Evaluate the biochemical properties of proteins to to evaluate the new biotechnology explain their function and predict potential uses applications pose ● Evaluate the impact of modified organisms on the ● Study the technologies used to create biofuels from natural environment biomass and weigh the pros/cons of each method ● Evaluate the scope and implications of regulatory ● Transform plant or animal cells by performing a agencies on biotechnology applications in cellular transformation agriculture ● Use antibodies to detect and quantify antigens by ● Examine and perform scientific procedures using conducting an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent microbes, DNA, RNA and proteins in a laboratory Assay (ELISA) 25