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A farmer cultivates a soybean field in order to control weeds.

are corporately owned, some owners do not participate in all the daily activities required to maintain crops and livestock. The men and women hired to take care of these activities are known as agricultural managers and agricultural laborers (who are sometimes known as farmhands ). As Jamesmentioned, very few jobs in agriculture require a college education, but some do. Examples of such jobs include agricultural engineers and scientists. These kinds of careers, however, account for less than 5 percent of occupations in the agriculture industry, and these professionals are still paid salaries very similar to those earned by farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers. THE COLLEGE QUESTION “More and more farmers and agricultural managers are going to college for agriculture,” explains James. For young people who are interested in a farming career, the question of whether or not to go to college has become harder to

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