Also called: Agricultural Real Assets Manager, Farmland Portfolio Manager
Buys and manages farms for pension funds and investors, choosing land, leasing it to farmers and deciding which crops will earn best.
You walk a California almond orchard with a soil expert, checking water rights before a $30 million purchase. Back home you review lease rates with farmers in Iowa, track crop prices and drought forecasts and report returns to a teachers' pension fund. Investors like farmland because people always need to eat.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in agricultural economics, finance or agribusiness; often an MBA.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Agricultural Economics, Finance, Agribusiness, Soil Science.
Growing about average. Pension funds and endowments are steadily adding farmland.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Satellite and soil data improve choices; judging land on foot and working with farmers and sellers stays human.
Classes: Agriculture CTE class, Economics, AP Environmental Science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-2051.
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