Where a crop production manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a crop production manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Crop production managers plan the production, manage the enterprise and participate in the production process of crop production facilities.
Also known as farm director, crop producer.
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 60 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: horticulture production manager, 64%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A crop production manager needs 30 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- technical equipment for crop production agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- cultivate crops for biomass handling and moving
- ensure soil fertility handling and moving
- manage crop rotation handling and moving
- monitor fields handling and moving
- store crops handling and moving
- types of storage facilities information and communication technologies (icts)
- agroforestry agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- maintain storage facilities handling and moving
- manage crop production handling and moving
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a crop production manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- horticulture production manager 81% covered · difficulty 30.3
- horticulture production team leader 78% covered · difficulty 33.7
- fruit production team leader 70% covered · difficulty 43.5
- crop production worker 68% covered · difficulty 42.9
- hop farmer 44% covered · difficulty 66.1
- agronomist 41% covered · difficulty 69.2
- mixed farmer 29% covered · difficulty 78.2
- vineyard supervisor 27% covered · difficulty 79.5
- farm manager 22% covered · difficulty 83
- vineyard manager 21% covered · difficulty 84.3
Look up another occupation
Crop production manager is filed under Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers, ISCO major group 6. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a crop production manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.