Farm Service Agency careers
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FSA's chain of authority ends in a county committee, and there are county committee elections to fill it. Above that sit a county executive director, then a state committee and a state executive director, then the administrator in Washington, who reports to the undersecretary of agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation. National farm program and farm loan policy is developed at headquarters, the computational and statistical work is done in Kansas City, and the programs themselves are implemented out of offices in counties and US territories.
Most of this work happens in county service centers. A program analyst is the first point of contact for farmers and ranchers, explaining program provisions and helping them through the forms; the trainee version of that job asks for a high school diploma or GED and no experience at all. County executive directors manage those offices and go out in the field, with a one-year training track leading into the role.