So, there are all kinds of farms, and they don’t all look like the one Old MacDonald had. Farms these days can be super high-tech, and they can grow a variety of living things—forest preserves, greenhouses, and apple orchards are all essentially farms, just as much as those with cows, chickens, and corn. These agricultural businesses need well-trained managers to make sure they run smoothly and produce the best results. Farm operations managers supervise things like watering and feeding schedules, fertilization, application of pesticides, and harvesting of crops—as well as the business side of things, like budgets, payroll, and purchasing of supplies. Managers don’t own the farms, they just run them, which means for this career, you need a college degree, great organization and business skills, and a simple love of nature.
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Basically, without farms we’d have a hard time surviving, and good farm operations managers make sure farms keep producing plentiful and high-quality foods.
A new and important kind of farming is called vertical farming—this is where farmers grow plants and crops inside a vertical structure like a skyscraper, stacking the growing surfaces upwards, which takes up less horizontal space and maximizes the use of farm lands. Plus it’s rather cool.
