Career Opportunities

Students majoring in agribusiness are prepared for a vast array of job opportunities when they graduate. Listed below are various career areas available as well as employers of our alumni.

Agribusiness Management

• Farmland Industries: Regional Farmland Manager
• Self-Employed: Farmer
• Hormel Foods Corporation: Hog Buyer, Manager of Buying Territory
• Self-Employed: President, Rief Farms Inc.
• Cong Agra, Inc.: Traffic Manager
• National By-Products: Assistant Territory Supervisor

Finance and Lending

• Farm Credit Services of America: Relationship Manager / Financial Officer
• First Commerce of Holdrege / First National Bank of Kearney: Vice President/Manager
• US Bank: VP Agricultural Lending
• USDA / Rural Development: Community Development Manager
• State Bank of Table Rock: Operations Manager
• Pinnacle Bank: Vice President / Cashier; Management Trainee
• Nebraska Community Foundation: VP for Development
• United Nebraska Bank: Assistant VP
• Bank of Elgin: Assistant Vice President
• American Exchange Bank: Loan Officer

Real Estate Management and Investment

• Hiffman Shaffer Associates, Inc.: VP Real Estate Brokerage and Development / Ag Investment
• Milton J. Johnson Real Estate: Real Estate Salesman
• Self-Employed: Real Estate Appraiser
• Gage County, Nebraska: Assessor Grain Merchandising
• Minnesota Corn Processors: Grain Merchandiser

Commondity Trade and Analysis

• ConAgra Flour Milling: Senior Grain Merchant

Grain Merchandising

• Archer Daniel Midlands (ADM)

Market Planning and Analysis

• American Cyanamid Company: Product Manager
• Monsanto: Business Team Leader

International Marketing

• Deere & Co.: Product and Marketing Specialist - Overseas
• Unicom consulting, Inc.: Agricultural Tour Coordinator

Entrepreneurship and New Business Development

• Ramsel Agronomic Service: Crop Consultant

Sales Management

• Ferguson Enterprises: Management Trainee
• Asgrow Seed Company: Sales Team Leader
• Coca-Cola: District Sales Manager
• United Coop: Agronomy Consultant
• Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals: Sales Representative

Information Technology and Analysis

Production Management

Food Marketing and Industry Organization

Other

• First Data: Quality Assurance Analyst
• Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad: Terminal Manager
• USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service: Agricultural Statistician
• Self-Employed: Feedlot and Farmer
• Iams Company: Cost Accountant
• State Farm Insurance: Auto Underwriter