{"id":4598,"date":"2015-06-13T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2015-07-01T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T16:41:33","slug":"government-careers-agriculture-natural-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/about-gov\/government-careers-agriculture-natural-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Careers in Agriculture &#038; Natural Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/about-gov\/government-careers-in-agriculture-natural-resources\/attachment\/careers-in-agriculture\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/careers-in-agriculture.jpg\" alt=\"careers in agriculture\" width=\"500\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/careers-in-agriculture.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/careers-in-agriculture-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/careers-in-agriculture-480x471.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine that there are many other fields where the employment outlook so favors the job seeker: There will be nearly 58,000 agriculture-related job openings annually over the next five years, according to a Purdue University report released in May.<\/p>\n<p>But there will be a projected annual average of only 35,400 graduates with expertise in food, agriculture, renewable resources and environment, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>As the leader of the agriculture and natural resource branch of one of the nation\u2019s leading public universities, I hire more than 200 people a year, many into jobs that require an advanced science background.<\/p>\n<p>I need scientists, teachers, Extension agents. I hire people who specialize in finance, human resources, facilities and management. An agriculture career can go in so many different directions than farming.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sometimes competing for a talent pool that\u2019s also being fished in by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Florida Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the other 11 campuses in the state public university system and too many other government agencies to name.<\/p>\n<p>The plethora of agriculture and natural resource jobs in and out of government may not be widely known in a nation where less than 1.5 percent of the population produces our food.<\/p>\n<p>You can jump in early, like Kiona Elliott, who just finished her sophomore year at the University of Florida\u2019s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and is already doing research under the direction of a leader in plant genomics and science communication about agricultural biotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>Kiona grew up in a single-parent urban household in Ft. Lauderdale where the family made ends meet by selling merchandise at swap meets. She had no previous exposure to agriculture and natural resources before a professor at a UF research center in her community took her under his wing.<\/p>\n<p>Now Kiona is training for what she hopes will be a career in research to help feed a project 9.6 billion people by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s never too late.<\/p>\n<p>Gina Duke is a 44-year-old grandmother who decided to make a career change. Since family obligations would make it difficult for her to relocate to the main UF campus, she enrolled in a UF undergraduate program in her community of Milton, Florida. She graduated in 2013 with a degree in natural resource conservation and now works as a park service specialist in the ecology department of a state forest in her community.<\/p>\n<p>Government employees protect our environment. They teach. They make scientific discoveries. 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Appointed senior vice president in June, 2010, Payne is the administrative head of the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) which includes the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, elements of the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, 13 Research and Education Centers throughout Florida, and the Florida Cooperative Extension Service with offices in each of the state\u2019s 67 counties. Prior to his current position he served as the Vice President for Extension and Outreach at Iowa State University and before that was the Vice President and Dean for University Extension at Utah State. Jack also has experience at two other land-grant institutions: Pennsylvania State University, where he served on the faculty of the School of Forest Resources, and, later, at Texas A&amp;M University, where he served as a faculty member in the Fisheries and Wildlife Department. After leaving Texas A&amp;M University, Payne had a long career with Ducks Unlimited (DU), as their National Director of Conservation. While at Ducks Unlimited, some of his successes included the development of DU\u2019s private lands program with agriculture, the development of a national conservation easement program and the expansion of their Mexican program to Central and South America. Payne received his M.S. in Aquatic Ecology and his Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology from Utah State University and is a graduate of the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida. 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