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Careers
Career
Opportunities
To keep pace with the food, fiber, and recreation requirements of
a growing world population, Animal Sciences graduates are needed
to service the livestock industry and closely related fields. Animal
Sciences offers considerable flexibility in fulfilling specific
career objectives, whether you're interested in working directly
with livestock - breeding, feeding, marketing - or indirectly in
closely related areas such as agribusiness, government, or education.
Here are some of the
diverse career opportunities available to Animal Sciences graduates:
- Agricultural equipment
development and marketing
- Artificial insemination
organizations Cooperative marketing and services
- Fair/exposition management
- Farm/corporate management/consulting
- Feed manufacturing
and marketing
- Government agencies
(Federal and State)
- Agriculture/Youth
Extension Agent
- Department of Agriculture
- product development
and evaluation
- market news service
- grading service
- Food and Agriculture
Organization
- International Livestock
and Crop Development
- International Technical
Aid
- Public Health Service
- quality-control
- sanitation and
health
- World Health Organization
- Livestock and trade
associations
- executive secretary
- field representative
- Livestock marketing
and services
- Pharmaceutical/chemical
development and marketing
With advanced
study:
teaching, research, or Extension at the college level in specific
areas of animal nutrition, animal genetics, reproductive physiology,
or meat science. |
