Careers

There is a marked shortage of agronomy graduates and so agronomists find ready employment in a diverse range of jobs particularly associated with the grazing and cropping industries.  Positions are being filled in:

• agronomic advisory work with government departments of primary industries, agricultural produce companies and private agricultural consulting firms;

• banks, pastoral firms and stockfeed, chemical and fertilizer companies:

• farm, feedlot and other property management;

• media work;

• Commonwealth departments and agencies such as Agriculture, Foreign Affairs and Trade, and ABARES;

• plant breeding companies, agricultural marketing groups, livestock societies and machinery manufacturing companies;

• Catchment Management Authorities, Landcare and other natural resource management organisations;

• research with universities, CSIRO and other government and research agencies; and

• education with secondary schools, TAFEs, universities and other training providers.