Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Purchasing, for further processing or for resale, farm products, such as milk, grains, or Christmas trees.
• Negotiating contracts with farmers for producing or purchasing farm products.
• Arranging the processing or resale of purchased products.
• Arranging the transportation or storage of purchased products.
• Reviewing orders for determining product types and quantities required for meeting demand.
• Maintaining records of business transactions and product inventories, reporting data to companies or government agencies as necessary.
• Examining or testing crops or products for estimating their value, determining their grades, or locating any evidence of disease or insect damage.
• Coordinating or directing activities of workers engaged in cutting, transporting, storing, or milling products and maintaining records.
• Calculating applicable government grain quotas.
• Selling supplies, such as seeds, foods, fertilizers, or insecticides, arranging for loans or financing as necessary.