Parks said she grew up working with beef cattle and now wants to study beef nutrition — something she said is needed in the dairy field.

“There’s not really nutrition in beef,” Parks said. “(Agriculture is) a happening field.”

Parks said she has heard in and out of the classroom of many jobs available in the agriculture field.

Growing up on a farm with alpacas and horses and more than five years of showing dairy cows for the 4-H Club was animal science senior Bree Muilenburg’s push to work in the agriculture field.

Muilenburg said she hopes to find a job in the field of dairy and she has heard there are many jobs available in Michigan.

“(I’m) nervous, but not worried (about finding a job),” Muilenburg said. “(In my classes,) they always talk about experience, experience, experience.”

Parks said the field of agriculture is all about networking, and she hopes to find a full-time job from the Agriculture Career Fair.

Alumnus Jeff Brown came to the Agriculture Career Fair last year, looking to make a career out of his passion: farming.

The fair brought Brown to his current job as agronomist for Stony Creek Essential Oils, Inc., in Saint Johns, Mich.

“(I’ve) always wanted to do this,” Brown said. “(I have a) farming background.”

Kyle Roggenbuck, maintenance manager for Stony Creek Essential Oils, Inc., said the company comes to MSU to hire an agriculture major.

“It’s a growing industry,” Roggenbuck said. “There’s a lot of opportunities for agriculture with the technology that’s available today.”

Brown came to MSU because it is the only school in Michigan offering a degree in crop and soil science. He said there are many jobs in the agriculture field across the Midwest and the field’s expansion might be attributed to new technology and the higher cost of crops.

“Every segment of agriculture is growing,” Brown said. “Everybody’s got to eat.”