CAREERS AND EMPLOYMENT IN AGRICULTURE
Whether you’re a high school student exploring career options, a college student searching for an internship, or a professional looking for your next opportunity, agriculture offers meaningful careers that make a difference. The resources below connect you with employers and job boards serving the agriculture, food, and natural resources industry throughout Minnesota and across the nation. If you are specifically looking for internships, please visit our Internships page.
We have been working with Ag Food and Natural Resource organizations throughout the state on MN and they have helped us by providing short career exploration videos about various careers in agriculture. Learn about the variety of career options available in ag!
This is a global talent management solution providing ag and food career searches.
If you’re not familiar with the 8 agricultural career pathways, we’ve produced a .pdf as a quick reference (available in English, Spanish, Hmong and Somali). Also included is a matrix showing the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the AFNR majors and programs offered. An interactive version of this can be found on our partner’s site, AgCentric.
National FFA and Discovery Education have joined forces to create a robust, comprehensive career resource to help you explore the broad range of careers within the industry of agriculture. Agriculture has a variety and abundance of careers that fit within nine exciting career focus areas. Careers may have you using advanced equipment, creating new hybrid seeds, raising animals, managing people or designing new products and packaging.
AgHires is a leader in recruiting and job advertising within the agriculture, agribusiness, food production, produce, food processing, and horticulture industries. We constantly analyze job seeker behavioral trends and align recruitment strategies to the current market.
This is a universal career exploration, training and job site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. You will also find dozens of ag and natural resources related career videos on its YouTube site.
FarmingWork.com launched in November 2021 as an agriculture job board for farms across the United States, including Minnesota.
This is a Minnesota State resource that breaks down careers, industries, pathways and majors within agriculture.
This a site for adult students to explore paths to future careers. This site will help guide you through the process and help you anticipate the challenges you may find along the way.
MN Employment and Economic Development is a resource for MN job seekers.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources offers information on careers in forestry. Included at the bottom of this page are short videos showcasing careers in forestry.
The Minnesota FFA Foundation has rolled out our “Career Connectors” panel discussions. These are virtual pre-recorded panel discussions featuring partners of the Minnesota FFA Foundation and cover the AFNR pathways.
This is a high level occupational outlook handbook provided by our government. You’ll be able to select your occupation by pay, by education level, on-the-job training and more.
Overall, there are a ton of resources available to you. If you are specifically wanting to find a career in ag and you are not finding what you are looking for, we’d be happy to help you. Please send an e-mail to mn.sace@minnstate.edu.