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Certified Agricultural Consultant (CAC) Checklist
Track your progress towards earning the CAC designation: Five years' agricultural consulting experience. (One year experience is a calendar year during which a person spends not less than 1,600 hours as follows: At least 600 hours of the 1,600 must be spent consulting in an agricultural or agribusiness situation for a fee or a salary. The individual shall have inspected agricultural businesses and assembled and analyzed sufficient data to arrive at objective decisions which are set out in detailed written or oral reports. The balance must be spent in a field related to agricultural consulting.) A four-year college degree, or equivalent. (The four-year college degree equivalent may be accomplished by passing the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) or another generally recognized test for college equivalency acceptable to the Membership Review Committee and approved by the ASAC Board. It may also be fulfilled by any combination of college credit and agricultural consulting experience totaling four years.) Submit one agricultural consulting plan demonstrating the ability of the applicant to produce consulting plans according to the standards of ASAC. (A passing agricultural consulting plan qualifies for a three-year period from date of approval. A CAC application with the appropriate fees must accompany all demonstration plans submitted for grading.) Complete and pass the following ASAC agricultural consulting courses. (No substitute courses or challenge exams are available for the agricultural consulting courses).
Complete an additional 40 hours of specialized study. Courses from your specialized area of study which must meet approval of the Certification and Education Committees. These specialized courses must total 40 hours or more. |
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