Agri-food career field
Marketing and Communications
Marketing and communications in agriculture builds demand and reputation for products nobody buys on impulse: seed, crop protection, biologicals, machinery, fresh produce, animal feed. The job is translating a technical argument — yield, disease tolerance, shelf life — into the language of the grower, the retail buyer or the importer. Unlike consumer marketing, the calendar here is agronomic: campaigns are planned against planting dates, not against a fiscal quarter.
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The role mixes desk work and field work. Much of the time goes to planning campaigns, coordinating agencies and vendors, producing technical sales material, running content and social channels, and measuring results alongside the commercial team. The rest is getting out: field days, demonstration plots, trade shows and industry conferences, and ride-alongs with the technical advisor and the dealer to hear how growers actually talk. That part means seasonal travel, long drives between growing regions, and standing outdoors at events that start at daybreak. It is an office job with an obligation to know the crop: anyone who never walks a field produces material the field does not believe.
What employers look for
Employers look for degrees in marketing, communications, design or international business, and increasingly welcome — or prefer — agronomists who moved into marketing, because the product argument is technical. Having worked inside the industry (inputs, fresh produce, machinery, animal feed) counts for more than general marketing experience. Tools that matter include CRM and marketing automation, web and social analytics, design and video editing suites, and the ability to build a business case from sales data. English is a common requirement at companies with a foreign parent or an export book, and Portuguese helps where there is a Brazilian operation.
Where it is in demand
Demand sits with seed and input companies, machinery and irrigation manufacturers, animal nutrition firms, export packing houses and trading companies, and with grower associations and commodity boards. In Mexico the roles cluster in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, the Bajío, Culiacán and Los Mochis, plus the berry and avocado regions of the west. Across the region they show up in hubs such as São Paulo and southern Brazil, the Argentine pampas, central Chile, the Peruvian coastal valleys and the Bogotá savanna.
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