Horticulture Careers

4. Responsible for researching the growth, nutrition, behavior, and how insects interact with plants
6. Responsible for producing and maintaining sporting grounds and ensuring the turf and surrounds are looking pristine
9. Responsible for working at the university level, conducting research and providing programing to the public in their specialty area
10. Responsible for growing plants, and increasing the yield, improving vigor, size, taste of plants produced.
12. Responsible for growing and maintaining plants on properties. They can also manage and redesign plantings and the construction of hardscapes.
13. Responsible for designing and creating arrangements of flowers.
14. Responsible for the education of agriculture, food science, and natural resources for students.

1. Responsible for daily operations involved with running a greenhouse or nursery. Greenhouses can be used for commercial plants or food production
2. Responsible for planting and harvesting traditional row crops like corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, potatoes, canola, sunflowers, flax, sugar beets, field pea, etc.
3. Responsible for overseeing golf course management, maintenance, and operations.
5. Responsible for the well-being of trees through growing, maintaining, and removal of trees
7. Responsible for researching and implementing their findings to better help grape vines produce grapes that are high quality and amount that is required for making wine
8. Responsible for creating, presenting, and overseeing the development of landscapes for individuals and companies.
11. Responsible for the research of seed characteristics and strive to improve the seed characteristics that are of the best quality for the plant