Job Titles & Salaries
Careers
Agriculture is the driving and stabilizing force for California's economy. As the leading industry in the state, it contributes over $500 billion annually! Careers in agriculture are exciting, rewarding, well-paying and plentiful.
Job Titles
Graduates may be employed in many fields, including:
- Agents in the production and marketing of certified seeds
- Agronomists
- Botanic Garden and Arboretum Specialist
- Contractors
- Crop Production Consultants
- Entomologists
- Farm Insurance Agents
- Farm Managers
- Field Representatives for food processing companies
- Floriculturist
- Greenhouse Management
- Greens Keeper
- Managers of farm service centers for cooperatives and elevators
- Marketing Experts for pesticide and ag. chemical companies
- Marketing Experts for private seed companies
- Natural Resource Conservations and Agents
- Nursery / Landscape Managers
- Pest Control Advisors
- Plant Pathologists
- Plant Propagator
- Research Associates for private plant breeding companies
- Research Associates for pesticide and ag. chemical companies
- Research Technicians for private companies, universities, and other governmental agencies
- Sports Turf Managers
- Weed Scientists
Alumni Careers
Agronomy Graduates
- Maricela Barbosa - USDA - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Port of Long Beach
- Sharon McCrorey - Ag Commissioner's Office, Weights and Measures, Monterey Park, CA
- Christina Smith - Strawberry breeder at Smalls Nursery, Red Bluff, CA
- Janet Rivas - Science teacher, Baldwin Park Unified School District
- Pedro Torres - Organic Grower, Aguanga CA
- Fermin Lopez - Ag Commissioner's Office, Ag Biologist, El Centro, CA
- Nikki Grieci - USDA Natural Resources Conservation -Conservation Specialist, Lancaster, CA
- Evan Kirby-Smith -Independently contracted organic inspector and consultant, Temecula CA.
Agricultural Biology Graduates
- Efrain Velasco - Forensic Entomologist, Ventura County Sheriff's Department
- Christy Diggins-Richey - Dole, Quality Assurance
- Jenny Chai - Environmental Health Specialist, Long Beach, CA
- Brad Baker - United Horticultural Supply, Sales, Corona, CA
- Richard (Tim) O'Neill - Monrovia Nursery Company, Pest Mgmt, Azusa, CA
- Laura Petro - Economic Entomologist, CDFA
Horticulture Graduates
- Natsuyo Aoyama - Seed Physiology Laboratory Manager, Cal Poly Pomona
- Otto Aumack - Disneyland, Facilities Management
- Robert Hertzing - Valencia Country Club, Superintendent
- Olga Lichten - Self-employed, Fruit Crop Grower, Fallbrook, CA
- Brian Takemoto - APHIS - Chicago, O'Hare Airport, Inspector
- Seth Young - Water Concern, Orange County, CA
- Gabriel Siapin - Siapin Landscape, Estimator
- Thanh Pham - Horticulturist, LA County Arboretum, Conservancy, Arcadia, CA
- Gavin Sherman - Self-Employed, Bee Keeper, Cal Poly Pomona Instructor
Soil Science Graduates
- Andrea Souther - Mission Resource Conservation District Cons. Specialist, Fallbrook, CA
- Gina MacLyman - Fruit Grower's Laboratory, Santa Paula, CA
- Christopher Wilson - Staff Scientist, QST Environmental, Fountain Valley, CA
- Sam Liu - USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, North Carolina
Landscape Irrigation Science Graduates
- Marcos Quezada - Metropolitan Water District, Water Conservation Consultant
- James Caringella - Area Specification Manager, Rain Bird Inc.
- Peter Hamann - Cal Sense, Technician Representative, Irrigation
- Anson Beattie - Environmental Care, Irrigation Specialist
- Jason Smith - Irrigation Designer, ETP Landscape Architecture
- Kevin McGourty - City of LA, Parks and Recreation Dept.