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Agricultural Chemistry. Basics. Everything we eat ,grow and produce Herbicides pesticides, fungicides, insecticides Fertilizers, feed supplements Help produce higher yielding crops, disease resistant plants Help agricultural industry, chemical industry produce more for less. EDUCATION.
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Basics • Everything we eat ,grow and produce • Herbicides pesticides, fungicides, insecticides • Fertilizers, feed supplements • Help produce higher yielding crops, disease resistant plants • Help agricultural industry, chemical industry produce more for less
EDUCATION • -Broad range of fields, well rounded • applicants with multidisciplinary backgrounds needed Ph.D. Not required for support positions • genetics, physiology, microbiology, entomology… • Any/every field can be utilized • internships or summer jobs
Outlook of Employment/Employers • Not clear, still many opportunities: • Government,-FDA,EPA,USDA • Academia, –outreach programs • Chemical companies
Information 1: chemistry.org http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=vc2%5C3wk%5Cwk3_agr.html 2: The department of agricultural chemistry: http://www.ruh.ac.lk/Uni/agri/chemistry.html 3:Wikipedia. Com agricultural science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_science