Career Opportunities

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Career Opportunities

• Production Agriculture

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Cranium

• Cranium - The game for your whole brain.
• How is this like Production Agriculture?

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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.

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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.

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Technological Advances
Basic Checkers X Box 360
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Descartes Moment
Agriculture Technology

• What do you know about this topic?
• What do you think you understand?
• What dont you understand?

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Technological Advances
Horse-drawn plow Tractor with Auto Steer
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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

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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

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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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