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Farm and Home Management Educators

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. May develop educational outreach programs. May instruct on either agricultural issues such as agricultural processes and techniques, pest management, and food safety, or on home management issues such as budgeting, nutrition, and child development.

What you’d 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.
  • Act as an advocate for farmers or farmers' groups.
  • Conduct field demonstrations of new products, techniques, or services.
  • Maintain records of services provided and the effects of advice given.

Skills that matter

  • Active Listening
  • Speaking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Instructing
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Social Perceptiveness

How to get there

Extensive preparation: most need graduate school, such as a master's degree or higher

Also called

  • 4-H Youth Development Specialist
  • Extension Agent
  • Extension Educator
  • Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent
  • 4-H Youth Development Educator
  • 4-H Youth Educator

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