Occupation Atlasfarm manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4552095e-3396-4831-86ad-4fc34ec39a19
farm manager
Farm managers plan and organise the daily operations, resourcing and business management of animal and crops producing farms.
Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ERCEnterprising · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising6.01
- R Realistic5.53
- C Conventional4.66
- S Social2.89
- I Investigative2.23
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers (45-1011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (15)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- agricultural business management
- agronomical production principles
- assess new farming technologies
- assign duties to agriculture workers
- environmental policy
- manage crop rotation
- manage farm products
- manage farm supplies
- manage production enterprise
- market farm products
- negotiate loan agreements
- operate farm equipment
- pollution prevention
- present the farm facilities
- supervise hygiene procedures in agricultural settings
Optional (22)
- create crop protection plans
- create soil and plant improvement programmes
- estimate harvest costs
- handling chemical products for soil and plants
- implement marketing strategies
- implement sales strategies
- livestock
- livestock species
- maintain farm equipment
- maintain plant health
- maintain plant soil nutrition
- manage crop production
- manage livestock
- manage mechanically controlled livestock production environments
- manage plans for the storage of organic by-products
- manage plans for the utilisation of organic by-products
- manage the health and welfare of livestock
- monitor forage grazing plans
- pest control in plants
- plant disease control
- report pollution incidents
- train employees
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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