Read what Potential Employers are saying about the program

"The variety of course work and associated practical experience [of the DPM] will undoubtedly afford its graduates a wide range of professional opportunities. The United States Department of Agriculture offers a wide range of plant quarantine and other career opportunities that require its employees to posses the knowledge and skills the DPM Program will provide. As such, the program will provide a much needed training ground for future employees. MJS, USDA, Anim.& Plant Health Ins. Service."

"Florida Citrus Mutual, on behalf of its 11,623 grower members, believes that this program would produce excellent practitioners who would be beneficial to the industry. It is my personal belief that the citrus industry, though its coops, large growers and organizations such as Mutual, would probably hire many of the graduates of such a program. BFM, CEO, Fl. Citrus Mutual ."

" While crop consultants were first viewed as the primary provider of employment opportunities of such programs, even more opportunities exist with extension, seed companies, fertilizer and agrichemical manufacturers and dealers, equipment manufacturers, journalism outlets, and other businesses who need generalists well trained in the sciences. DEB, Found. for Envir. Agric. Educ."

"We employ 25 professionals. Doctor of Plant [Health] Medicine trained individuals would fit perfectly into our business requirements. We look forward to our company's {Glades Crops Care's] participation in internships and hiring opportunities in this program. HCM & MM, Glades Crops Care, Inc ."

"Individuals trained in the DPM program would be perfect candidates to fill the varied diagnostic positions within our regulatory agency. I look forward to evaluating graduates of this program for employment at the Division of Plant Industry. TS, Fl. Dept. Agr., Div. Pl. Industry."

"We have a continuing need for personnel to conduct the hundreds of field trials in developing our biotechnological products but we had difficulty finding qualified persons. The DPM program fills the multidiscipline requirements that we desire for our field representatives and could provide us with potential employees who have the skills for which we have been searching. RLS, Eden Bioscience Co."

"At a time when Integrated Pest Management, resistance management, and the adoption of new generation biological and biochemical pesticides are national priorities, the National Association of Independent Crop Consultants and numerous grower associations point to a serious shortage of trained people. The DPM program will fulfill many needs of the agricultural community today and in the future. ALJ, USDA, Office of Pest Management Policy."

"Upon gaining this degree, the graduates will be especially qualified as extension advisors, as agrichemicals company sales and/or field development representatives, as agricultural legal advisors, etc. The Agricultural Community of today and in the foreseeable future needs the type of graduates that will come from the DPM program. I look forward with much anticipation to the first and future graduates of this program. JLS, Manager, Global Technology, DuPont Co."

"The past 24 years I have been a practitioner of plant health, gradually working up, over the first few of those years to serve approximately 100 farmers with approximately 100,000 acres of corn, soybean, and alfalfa. I started as the only crop consultant in the Midwest. Now there are more than 90 Independent Crop Consultants in Nebraska. A large proportion of them have BS degrees in Agronomy, with little if any entomology, plant pathology, or environmental training. There is a real need for crop consultants with a graduate degree similar to veterinary and human medicine, that is, the DPM degree. ESR, Pest Management Co., Lincoln, NE."

"I believe that individuals with broad practical training, as proposed in the DPM, would find ready employment in the Agribusiness industry and would make a greater contribution to increasing crop productivity than we currently realize with our specialists. Our company, a large multinational vertically integrated business, would like very much to hire graduates of the program. B.G., Manager, Agric. Res. & Seed, Heinz North America."