Ag Technician

An Ag Technician is certified to service, repair, assemble and maintain any agricultural equipment and attachments used for farming operations.

This includes equipment for harvesting, material handling and processing, spraying and irrigation, seeding, tillage, and hay and forage. Find an Ag Technician college program near you.

Parts Person

A Parts person manages and dispenses parts inventories. They may be responsible for stock handling, warehousing, identifying and cataloging parts and assemblies as well as ordering, receiving, inspecting, sorting, pricing, and selling.

Parts technicians must be knowledgeable in the use of all in-house equipment, including computers and material-handling equipment. They should enjoy variety and working directly with customers. Employers may provide entry-level employees with on-the-job training.

Precision Ag Technician

A Precision Ag Technician applies geospatial technologies, including geographic information systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS), to agricultural production or management activities, such as pest scouting, site-specific pesticide application, yield mapping, or variable-rate irrigation.

Use computers to develop or analyze maps or remote sensing images to compare physical topography with data on soils, fertilizer, pests, or weather. Learn more about the top 20 two-year Precision Ag college programs.