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Chapter Overview
•Supervised
Agriculture Experience
Program
•Career Options
•SAE Leads The Way
To Careers
•Types of SAE
Programs
•First Steps For Your
SAE Program
•Parts Of An SAE
Program
Agricultural Careers
and Supervised
Agricultural
Experience Programs
(SAEs)
•Start Your Career
Search In Agriculture
Chapter Selection
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SAE Rewards
Agricultural Careers and Supervised Agricultural
Experience Programs (SAEs)
An SAE program helps
you grow as you go. It’s
a great way to•explore careers
•find your future
•motivate yourself
•build self-discipline
•prove you can handle
responsibility
•gain experience
•make money
•learn to work with
people
•and many, many more
You have a big decision
This chapter focuses on careers
to make before graduating
from high school. What’s
next?
in agriculture and how they
might fit into your future.
FFA can help you make
that decision.
Through FFA you will
learn about hundreds of
careers and how to
prepare for them, have
experiences that reveal
what kind of work you
enjoy and don’t enjoy,
and develop skills that put
you one step ahead
toward career success.
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Agricultural Careers and Supervised Agricultural
Experience Programs (SAEs)
More Than 300
Career Options
You already know
agriculture is farming and
a whole lot more.
Agriculture is our
nation’s largest employer.
Close to 21 percent of all
jobs in this country are in
the area of agriculture.
Agriculture careers can be
grouped into six agricultural
career clusters:
•Agriculture and Forestry
Production: working with land,
crops, animals, plants, flowers,
and trees;
• Management and Financial
Specialties: ensuring a healthy
bottom line for American
agriculture;
• Marketing, Merchandising
and Sales: matching customer
needs to products and services;
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Agricultural Careers and Supervised Agricultural
Experience Programs (SAEs)
• Science and
Engineering: addressing
environmental challenges
and assuring a safe,
nutritious and economical
food supply;
• Social Services:
improving the lives of
agriculturists and their
communities.
• Education and
Communication: sharing
information and hands-on
skills.
Find out more about these
career areas using the FFA
Student Manual or the National
FFA Online at
http://www.ffa.org.
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Agricultural Careers and Supervised Agricultural
Experience Programs (SAEs)
SAE Leads The Way To
Careers
An SAE is a program you design to
gain hands-on experience and
develop skills in agriculture career
areas that interest you.
You choose an SAE program that lets
you discover, explore, experience,
and excel in careers.
An SAE is not just another class
assignment, you truly are in charge of
your SAE!
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Agricultural Careers and Supervised Agricultural
Experience Programs (SAEs)
SAE On-Line
Find out more about SAE
programs at the SAE
Central website:
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/
agexed/sae/toolbox/index.
html
Types Of SAE
Programs
There are four basic
types of SAE programs.
Your SAE can be any one
of these types, or even a
combination.
Exploratory
Learn about the big
picture of agriculture and
its many related careers.
Your exploration will
help you choose to further
develop another type of
SAE.
Research/Experimentation
and Analysis
Conduct research or analyze
information to discover new
knowledge. Expanding your
agriscience skills positions you
to enter a variety of agricultural
career areas.
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Agricultural Careers and Supervised Agricultural
Experience Programs (SAEs)
Types Of SAE
Programs
There are four basic
Placement
types of SAE programs.
Your SAE can be any one
of these types, or even a
combination.
This type of SAE allows you to
work for someone else, either
for pay or the experience.
Ownership/
Entrepreneurship
This type of SAE makes
you a business owner.
You plan and operate an
agriculture-related
business-one that is
probably small at first but
gets larger with time.
Your placement may be on a
farm or ranch or in an
agriculture business, school
laboratory, or community
facility.
You track your progress by
keeping records on how many
hours you work and experiences.
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Agricultural Careers and Supervised Agricultural
Experience Programs (SAEs)
First Steps For Your
SAE Program
Would you like to make
your SAE program as
successful as possible?
Start now!
The strongest SAE
programs are started early
in a student’s agricultural
education experiences.
Here are some steps to
take now to begin
developing your SAE
program.
-Check out other member’s SAE
programs. Ask FFA members
what they do and what they
gain. Look for ideas at the SAE
Central website,
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/
agexed/sae/ toolbox/index.html.
-Use your imagination. Create
SAE possibilities that fit your
interests and opportunities.
-Talk to your FFA Advisor about
what to do next.
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Experience Programs (SAEs)
Parts Of An SAE
Program
Your SAE program will
be unique, but there are
certain standard types of
activities consistent to
most SAEs.
-Investigation: looking
into possibilities and
weighing the pros and
cons of various SAE
ideas;
-Planning: deciding what
to do and how, and setting
your goals;
-Coordination: communicating
with your FFA Advisor,
supervisor/employer and
parents/guardians.
-Record Keeping: tracking
your achievements over time;
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Parts Of An SAE
Program
Improvement Activities:
taking steps to make your
business, work site and/or
community more
attractive, efficient or
valuable;
Supplementary
Activities: Practicing
specific agricultural skills
you learn in class by
using them outside of
class.
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Agricultural Careers and Supervised Agricultural
Experience Programs (SAEs)
Start Your
Career Search In
Agriculture
The FFA Student
Manual provides
information about
six career clusters in
agriculture.
www.ffa.org/careers/index.html
For each cluster you
will find sample job
titles and a check list
that suggests how
your likes and (and
dislikes) relate to
these jobs.
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