Posted: 06.03.2010

A new study suggests good news for college
graduates with agricultural degrees.

The study predicts about 54,000 agriculture-related jobs will be
created in the U.S. every year between now and 2015. That includes
areas such as food, renewable energy and the environment.
The study was conducted by Purdue University and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.

It says the job growth is driven in part by increased food
demand in other countries.

Mike Compton is with the agriculture school at the University of
Wisconsin-Platteville. He says enrollment there has increased more
than 70 percent in the past 10 years, but more students are still
needed.

He tells Wisconsin Public Radio that students tend to equate
agriculture with farming, but most of the jobs are off the farm.

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