Rewarding careers in agriculture and horticulture
Explore a wealth of resources, learning pathways and expert guidance designed to help you thrive in the farming and growing industry. Whether you're starting out or scaling up, the tools you need are right here.
Job profiles
The following organisations are sources of good information on the exciting range of careers available in agriculture and horticulture.
This downloadable booklet created by the Agricultural Industries Federation (AIC) provides an overview of the range of opportunities available in the animal feed industry.
If you're keen to explore careers across the wider land-based and environment sector, then Lantra's careers hub is a great place to start your search
If you have access to Morrisby - typically through a school subscription - then their job profiles cover many roles in agriculture and horticulture, too.
The National Careers Service provides a host of job profiles across a wide variety of sectors, including farming and growing.
Prospects helps graduate find the right careers. The organisation helps guide students and graduates to a bright future with unrivalled information, advice and opportunities
The Unifrogm site - which is normally accessed through a school subscription - contains a large range of job profiles, covering many roles in agriculture and horticulture.
Classroom resources
There are a wide range of resources available to teachers who want to bring their classes to life with real-world examples of how their subjects are used in agriculture and horticulture, including our Careers in the Science Curriculum pdf, shown here.
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This document maps the National Curriculum's learning goals against real tasks performed by a wide range of roles in farming and groing, with links to interactive exercises that can help show this work in the field.
For more resources from a wide range of other trustworthy organisations, just click through the panels below.
Food - a fact for life, created by AHDB, has free resources to teach youngsters where food comes from.
The Countryside Classroom has downloadable tools to help teachers of all areas of the national curriculum.
You can access worksheets and a virtual tour of one of the UK's most high-tech farms here.
Teachers can connect with real farmers and access STEM resources through the NFU's site.
Organisations supporting careers
Agriculture and horticulture is supported by a huge number of fantastic organisations - many of which provide grants and schemes to support new entrants.
There are also lots of organisations who are committed to helping people develop their skills in agriculture and horticulture, too.
