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

  • Plant Culture Manager
  • Plant Health Manager
  • Plant Nursery Manager
  • Beef Farm Operator
  • Facility Operations Manager
  • Farm Operations Manager
  • Farm Operations Technical Director
  • 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.
  • Determine, administer, and execute policies relating to operations administration and standards, facility maintenance, and safety.
  • Direct crop production operations, such as planning, tilling, planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, and harvesting.
  • Maintain financial, operational, production, or employment records for farms or ranches.
  • 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.

  • Analyze data to inform operational decisions or activities.
  • Compile operational data.
  • Direct organizational operations, projects, or services.
  • Estimate labor or resource requirements for forestry, fishing, or agricultural operations.
  • Evaluate quality of plants or crops.
  • Maintain operational records.
  • Manage agricultural or forestry operations.
  • Monitor operational quality or safety.