Source: WRAL TECHWIRE, 5/4/18

An increase in computerized and automated farming has created a new salaried career opportunity for people who work on farms. After all, someone needs to know how to work and repair all the machines and be licensed to work with pesticides. Agricultural technicians – or agri-technicians, as they’re called – can earn up to an annual salary of $40,000, which is above average in much of eastern North Carolina. 

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