How do they match: Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

  • Plant Culture Manager
  • Plant Health Manager
  • Plant Nursery Manager
  • Conservation Technician
  • Farm Operations Technical Director
  • Fish and Wildlife Technician
  • Fisheries Technician
  • Pineapple Plantation Manager
  • Sugar Plantation Manager

  • Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.

  • Determine plant growing conditions, such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings, and set planting and care schedules.
  • Determine types or quantities of crops, plants, or livestock to be grown and raised, based on budgets, federal incentives, market conditions, executive directives, projected sales volumes, or soil conditions.
  • Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.
  • Direct crop production operations, such as planning, tilling, planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, and harvesting.
  • Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.
  • Monitor environments to ensure maintenance of optimum animal or plant life.
  • Position and regulate plant irrigation systems, and program environmental and irrigation control computers.
  • Provide information to customers on the care of trees, shrubs, flowers, plants, and lawns.
  • Replace chemical insecticides with environmentally friendly practices, such as adding pest-repelling plants to fields.

  • Advise customers on technical or procedural issues.
  • Evaluate quality of plants or crops.