Career Options

What choices do I have?

An Agricultural Education Major can teach high school agriculture, junior high, middle school agriculture or adult farm management.  Teaching positions have been readily available for nearly 40 years.  Future trends will likely continue to be strong as a high percentage of current teachers are nearing retirement. 

Alternative career options for Agricultural Education majors are a reason that many current Agriculture teachers leave the field and create new teaching openings for you.  These options are also available for you if you choose not to teach.  They include extension education, international projects, agricultural lending/finance, agricultural sales, training and development, farming/ranching, livestock or agronomic consulting, livestock nutrition and more. 

An Agricultural Education major will open many career doors for you.  Any agricultural career that involves interacting with people makes an Agricultural Education major a logical choice.  Are you that person?   If you think you might be, take the following steps:

• Talk to an agricultural education teacher
• Schedule a day to job shadow that teacher
• Examine career clusters by visiting the Agricultural Career Center at www.ffa.org

Placement of UMC graduates

Recent UMC graduates are currently teaching in agricultural in many places in the upper Midwest.

• Paul Detloff '02 - New York Mills, MN
• Amanda Edberg '03 - Mapel, WI
• Shawn Linder  '01 - Grand Rapids, MN
• ADawn (McLean) Melbye  '97 - Thief River Falls, MN
• Shawn Myer '98 - Kimball, MN
• Rita (Schaefer) Olson '02 - Winner, SD
• Angie Pommerening  '02 - Mountain Lake, MN
• Bill Rinkenberger  '03 - Blooming Prairie, MN
• Adam Steege '98 - Hancock, MN
• Michelle Yungk '96- Marshall, MN

This is a collaborative program between the University of Minnesota, Crookston, and the University of Minnesota Division of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Education (AFEE) based on the St. Paul campus.

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