Farm and Home Management Educators
Agriculture, Food and Natural ResourcesO*NET 25-9021.00United States
Instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Demonstrate procedures and apply research findings to advance agricultural and home management activities.
- Median annual earnings
- $60,367
- Projected change
- +0%
- Typical education
- Master's or Professional degree
- Employment
- 11.61K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
70.4% of the workforce
Growing to 11.61K by 2035
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The work
What farm and home management educators do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Conduct classes or deliver lectures on subjects such as nutrition, home management, and farming techniques.
- Advise farmers and demonstrate techniques in areas such as feeding and health maintenance of livestock, growing and harvesting practices, and financial planning.
- 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.
- Act as an advocate for farmers or farmers' groups.
- Maintain records of services provided and the effects of advice given.
- Conduct field demonstrations of new products, techniques, or services.
- Prepare and distribute leaflets, pamphlets, and visual aids for educational and informational purposes.
- Schedule and make regular visits to farmers.
- Organize, advise, and participate in community activities and organizations, such as county and state fair events and 4-H Clubs.
- Conduct agricultural research, analyze data, and prepare research reports.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $37,127
- 25th percentile
- $46,679
- 50th percentile
- $60,367
- 75th percentile
- $74,699
- 90th percentile
- $88,797
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $60,367 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+0%average or slower
202511,608 jobs
2035 projected11,610 jobs
2 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- Master's or Professional degree
- 70.4%
- Bachelor's degree
- 18.5%
- High school diploma or less
- 3.7%
- Certificate
- 3.7%
- Doctoral degree or more
- 3.7%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Instructing
- Teaching others how to do something.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Learning Strategies
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Service Orientation
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Negotiation
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Mathematics
- Using mathematics to solve problems.
In the market
Job titles and employers
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Top employers
- 01University of Arkansas53 postings
- 02University of Kentucky41 postings
- 03Kansas State University19 postings
- 04Edjoin.Org17 postings
- 05University of Tennessee17 postings
- 06North Carolina State University15 postings
- 07Virginia Tech15 postings
- 08Oklahoma State School Boards Association12 postings
- 09University of Florida12 postings
- 10Comfama11 postings
- 11Compensar11 postings
- 12Montana State University10 postings
- 13State Of West Virginia8 postings
- 14Oklahoma State University7 postings
- 15Texas A&M University7 postings
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