Career
Farm and home management educators
Teach families and farmers practical skills through extension programs.
Here's what you actually need to know.
The work
What people in this job do
- Advise farmers and demonstrate techniques in areas such as feeding and health maintenance of livestock, growing and harvesting practices, and financial planning.
- Conduct classes or deliver lectures on subjects such as nutrition, home management, and farming techniques.
- Collaborate with producers to diagnose and prevent management and production problems.
- Research information requested by farmers.
- Collect and evaluate data to determine community program needs.
The outlook
How the forecast changed this year
The deeper question
What kind of person does this path ask you to become?
What this work centers on
O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.
The work
Do you want most of your days spent on people & care, then ideas & analysis?
Responsibility
Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?
“Advise farmers and demonstrate techniques in areas such as feeding and health maintenance of livestock, growing and harvesting practices, and financial planning.”
Development
What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?
Active Listening, Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Writing.
Trade-offs
What does it ask of you in exchange?
6 years of education after high school (master's degree), for a median of $60,220 a year and 800 openings nationally each year.
Paths in
Degrees that lead here
- Human Development and Family StudiesSee the degree →
- Animal ScienceSee the degree →
- Agricultural BusinessSee the degree →
- Farm/Farm and Ranch ManagementCIP 01.0104
- Animal/Livestock Husbandry and ProductionCIP 01.0302
- Crop ProductionCIP 01.0304
Paths across
Careers that use similar skills
- Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary$98,700 · +2.9%
- Management Analysts$101,860 · +10.1%
- Range Managers
- Soil and Plant Scientists$78,850 · +6.7%
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary$63,820 · -0.3%
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Sources
- BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.