Careers in Equine Industry

Kathy Anderson

Diversity

  Agriculture   Business   Sport   Gaming   Entertainment   Recreation

Scope 2005 study   9.2 million horses

 Previous = 6.9   4.6 million Americans

involved in industry

  2 million horse owners  Previous = 1.6 million

Impact and scope

  $39 billion annual direct effect on U.S. economy

 Total impact of $102 billion  Provides 460,000 full-time equivalent jobs  Horse industry pays $1.9 billion in taxes

Horse numbers

2005 1989  Race 844,531 725,000  Showing 2,718,954 1,974,000  Recreation 3,906,923 2,970,000  Other 1,752,439 1,262,000

(farm, ranch, rodeo, police, polo, carriage)

Horse Industry Trends THROUGH MEMBERSHIPS, REGISTRATIONS AND TRANSFERS

* Thoroughbred does not keep record of transfers

Participation

  1 out of every 63 Americans involved in Horse industry  238,000 w/ breeding  481,000 competing  1.1 million other activities

Participation

  119,000 service providers   702,000 employees   2 million family members & volunteers

Levels

  34% horse owners income level below $50,000

  28% annual income over $100,000   46% income between $25,000 - $75,000

Where are the horses?

  70% horse owners in communities on 50,000 or less

Equine surveys

  558,00 horses sold in U.S – 1998  Sales = $1.75 billion

  Nebraska AQHA numbers -2006  88,485 horses – 8th

 6,078 new registrations – 4th

  Nebraska APHA numbers  12th total registered horses  15th new registrations

USDA National Animal Health Monitoring System – Equine ’05 study  Equine Demographics

 78.6% equine operations = 5 or fewer horses   39.6% of equines

 3.7 % equine operations = 20 + horses   27.0 % of equines

Economic Impact of Horse Event to community   200 horse   Exhibiting 2 days

 1 day to move in  1 day to move out

  Approximately $780,000 to community

Flexibility is key to career success!

Keep all options open!

Equine Careers

  Full time   Supplementary/hobby

Traditional/Full Time

 Horse Trainer  Instructor  Breeding manager

  Needs  Business courses

Traditional/Full Time

 Veterinarian

Supportive

  Education   Feed companies   Extension   Pharmaceuticals   Retail

Careers

  Equine Education  College

  2 year   BS or MS

  4 year   MS or PhD

  Needs  Equestrian Team

coach  Judging Team coach  Equitation courses

Extension   Assistant

  BS

  Educator   MS

Careers

  Feed Industry or Pharmaceutical  BS  Advanced degree

Part time/supplemental

  Breeder   Hobby   Competition

Degreetypeoptions  Equineconcentrateddegree?

  EquineScienceDegree  AnimalScience,EquineOption  CourseswithinAnimalScienceDegree

  Supportiveequinecourses  Variousmajors  SomeEquinespecificcourses

BreedingFarmManager/Production&Management/Trainer  Degreewithcourses

in:  EquineScience  AnimalScience  Business  Economics  Communication  Computerscience

EquineProductionandManagementFocusDegree  Extension  BreedAssociation

  Youth  Eventcoordinator  Publicrelations

  Therapeuticridingspecialist

  Trainer/manager  Coursedesigner  Equitationinstructor

  Government  Eventcoordinator  Brandinspector  Parksinspector

  Marketing  Auctions  Analyst

  International  Insurance  Education

Equine‐relatedAgribusiness

  Majorwithemphasisin:  Business  Economics  Computerscience  Communications

  AnimalScienceandgeneraleducation

Equine-related Agribusiness

  Drug and Pharmaceutical   Management   Sales

  Bloodstock companies   Pedigree evaluation   Buyers   Technical service

  Equine breed registries   Finance

  AI organizations   Feed companies   Public relations   Computerized

management systems   Insurance   Publications   Retail

EquineRelated:MastersinBusinessAdministration

  Coursepreparationinbusinessandeconomics

  Equineand/oragriculturerelated

EquineRelated:MastersinBusinessAdministration(MBA)  Middleandupper

managementpositionsinAgribusiness

  LawSchool  CPA  IRSauditorforhorse

farms

Scienceconcentration–Pre‐Veterinarymedicine  B.S.degree

  Researchassistant  University,company

  VeterinaryAssistant  Sales

  DVM  Privatepractice  U.S.Government  Consulting  University

  Research  Teaching  Extension

  International

Graduate School (M.S./Ph.D.)

  B average with emphasis on science related courses  Research  Teaching  Extension  Nutritionist  Stallion analyst

  Reproduction specialist  AI, Embryo transfer  Semen preservation

  Management systems   Computer

management

ColoradoStateUniversityEquineSciencesProgram  JobPlacement

  45%  AgBusiness–equinerelated

  20%  ProfessionalStudy(MS,PhD,DVM,MBA)

  20%  AnimalProduction

  5%  Education

  10%  Miscellaneous

Internships

  http://www.lazyeranch.net/site/index.asp   http://kemi.org/   http://www.babcockranch.com/   http://www.greenvalleyreining.com/   http://www.roodandriddle.com/   http://www.aqha.com/association/who/

openings.html   http://www.apha.com

Career’s

  http://www.agcareers.com/

Important Horse web sites

  http://www.horsecouncil.org/   http://www.unwantedhorsecoalition.org/   http://www.extension.org/horses

Keep your options open!