Jobs in Agriculture

Agriculture Jobs in Agriculture Education

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ADVANCED LEVEL CAREERS A typical program for college bound students may include the following Nursery Manager Landscape Designer Diesel Mechanic Equipment Operator courses: Welder Parts Salesperson Ag Equipment Service Manager Field Representative Technician Manager: Production/Agribusiness Grade 9 Grade 10 International Sales & Trade Technician Agriculture Science I Agriculture Science II Animal Health Technician English 9P English 10P Greenhouse Grower/Manager 21st Century World History PE PE Washington Union High PROFESSIONAL LEVEL Algebra Geometry Keyboarding Biology School District CAREERS Foreign Language Foreign Language Agriculture Department Ag Teacher Farm Advisor Ag Business Owner/Operator Grade 11 Grade 12 Ag Engineer County Planner Agriculture Business Ag Mechanics I Pest Control Advisor Veterinarian English 11P and/or 6041 S. Elm Ave. Fresno, CA Landscape Architect Ag Researcher American History Ornamental 93706 Soil/Water Manager Geneticist Algebra II Horticulture Irrigation Engineer Land Surveyor PE English 12P (209) 485-8805 Ag Lawyer Nutritionist Computer Science Amer. Gov’t/Econ Chemistry Adv. Bio/Physics Elective Steven Rocca Agriculture Instructor Agriculture The Agricultural The FFA Education Education This student group is part of all high school agriculture programs. Program Includes: Development of speaking, Make an investment thinking, and leadership skills are In your future! cornerstones of the FFA. Plan on Classroom There are over two hundred rewarding Instruction meeting new people and learning careers in Agriculture. Through your many new things in this high school agriculture program, you can organization. Expect to earn add much to the quality of your FFA Supervised awards, participate in recreational Activities Agricultural education. You will learn important job Experience activities, experience local and related skills and develop powerful statewide competition, and have leadership skills which will expand your fun! opportunities in your future. Our world Classroom and is being transformed, and exciting Laboratory Instruction opportunities await those who are ~ A quality education is the framework prepared. Tomorrow’s careers begin for everyone’s successful future. with high school agricultural education ~ Through your classroom experiences Supervised today. you will develop a good base of Agricultural agriculture knowledge and learn to apply your thinking skills to real world Experience Program Where are the Jobs? situations. (SAEP) ~ Students have the opportunity to gain SAEP consists of all supervised Approximately 21 million people are experience in various agriculture areas agriculture experiences learned employed in Agriculture careers. About given the facilities at W.U.H.S. outside of the regularly scheduled 400,000 people are needed each year to ~ Agriculture Mechanics Shop classroom or laboratory. SAEP’s fill positions in this field. Of those ~ Agriculture Computer Science provide opportunities for learning vacancies, only 100,000 are currently Lab and Library by doing. They provide the means being filled by people trained in ~ Greenhouses and Nursery Unit for you to learn with the help of agriscience. That means there are many ~10 Acre school farm – raisin and your teacher, parents, employer, opportunities for YOU. wine grape varieties, garden area, and other adults experienced in the and livestock facilities. area of your interests.