Agriculture Large Animal Technician - Lake Area Technical Institute

Agriculture Large Animal Technician from Lake Area Technical Institute is a Campus Associate Animal Science degree that prepares you for a Agriculture career. A Need For Someone Skilled With Large Animals The large animal technician option will provide an education and experience enabling graduates to work with large animals such as cattle, sheep, and swine in the areas of basic nutrition, health care, animal husbandry, animal handling, and herd management. This program would supply desperately needed skilled assistants to veterinarians and large livestock operations. However, it is important to note that this is not a Vet Tech program. No small animal work will be taught and no national accreditation is necessary. Favorable Opportunities Veterinarians are in need of assistants to help with large animal health care delivery and on the large-scale livestock operations, particularly in remote areas of South Dakota where one veterinarian has to cover a wide service region. South Dakota Department of Labor statistics indicate a favorable future employment projection. The national CareerInfoNet shows a 16% job opening growth for animal caretakers/vet assistants over the next eight years. Individuals pursuing this option will have many job possibilities including employment in ag businesses, selling animal care products and in animal nutrition. South Dakota's CareerInfo website also lists ag occupations as one of the top 50 occupations with the most openings. View more details on Lake Area Technical Institute . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Animal Science courses.