Management Careers: Administrative Services Managers

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What They Do

If you appreciate organic foods, working with your hands, growing and harvesting crops and you love animals and enjoy the outdoors, consider a career as a farmer, rancher, or as another type of agricultural manager. Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers operate farms, greenhouses and other agricultural establishments that plant and harvest crops as well as produce livestock and dairy products.

A day in the life of a farmer, rancher and other agricultural manager is a very physically demanding job that starts before the sun rises and ends long after the sun goes down. Their day includes a variety of farming activities from supervising crop production and planting to harvesting and herding livestock, spending countless hours studying market conditions to evaluating how to produce crops and raise livestock.

A farmer, rancher or agricultural manager career may include monitoring potentially available federal funding, buying and organizing farm machinery and other supplies, repairing farm equipment and adapting to changing weather and crop conditions. A farmer, rancher or agricultural manager career may also include monitoring all budgets, financial records and staff members.