1. Careers in Horticulture

2. Objectives
Objective 3: Identify career opportunities in plant science.
Identify and describe the major areas of plant science.
Identify career opportunities in plant science, and determine the education and training they entail.

3. Career Opportunities in Plant Science
Greenhouse caretaker
Plant propagator
Orchard Care Taker
Pesticide Applicator
Groundskeeper
Tractor Operator
Combine harvester

4. Career Opportunities in Plant Science
Greenhouse manager
Golf course manager
Pesticide dealer
Crop supply salesperson
Greenhouse supply salesperson

5. Career Opportunities in Plant Science
Crop marketing specialist
Crop production specialist
Fertilizer technologist
Erosion control scientist
Soil conservationist
Seed technologist
Turf grass specialist

6. Graduate level careers in Plant Science
Plant geneticist
Plant breeder
Biotechnologist
Genetic engineer
Plant pathologist
Plant physiologist
Statistician
Weed scientist

7. Some of the skills needed in the horticulture industry
Growing Skills
Watering
Fertilizing
Transplanting
Seed sowing
Disease control
Students working in greenhouse

8. Mechanical Skills Structure erection and maintainence
Equipement repair
Plumbing, heating and cooling
Tractor pics

9. Marketing Skills Advertizing Price Setting Quality Control
Post Harvest Storage
Grading
Packaging
Shipping

10. Administrative Skills
Hiring/ Firing
Coordianted responsibility
Scheduling
Financial elements
Records/computer use
Ordering
Scheduling planting
Billing

11. Legical Skills Pesticide laws and regulations
Interstate transportation
Taxes
Local and state ordinances and laws

12. Objective 3.2 List and explain the types of growers
Wholesale grower
Sells to retailers
May not sell to the public
I.e. Parks in Van Buren
Retailers
Sells to the public
Ft. Smith Garden Center
Shruam’s

13. Propagator All phases of propagation
Maintains light, temperature and moisture conditions

14. Growers In charge of production of one large greenhouse
Oversees every element of their assigned greenhouse

15. Head Grower Over sees several growers
Reports to a range superintendent

16. Range Superintendent Works underneath the owner
Over sees multiple head growers and those under them

17. Production Manager In charge of 1 crop
Orders materials, supplies and fertilizer to produce the crop

18. Marketing Manager
Grading, postharvest and storage, packaging and shipment
Orders cartons, containers and packaging materials
In charge of the graders and packers

19. Shipping Room Manager
Handles the crop from the time it comes from the greenhouse until it is packed
In charge of the graders and packers

20. Other Career Areas
Soil person
Drivers
General labor