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You should consider an academic career like a professional sports career - lots more people on the university farm teams than ever will make it to the pros. A quasi academic career is the part time lecturer, full time consultant/entrepreneur route. There's a lot of professional value in association with a university.
those farm teams are going out the window. Agronomists are soon to be obsolete. A handful of experts can literally do extension for a whole country, check it out
And how would a handful of experts collect data on new varieties of crops, including but not limited to GMO? On the distribution - likely expansion! - of carantine weeds and pests? By relying on some farmer's reports?