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The objective of this article is to show how advisors of the Chambers of agriculture face in their job heterogeneous temporalities and how they manage to combine them with the support of specific knowledge and learning. Organizational temporalities, made of historical periods and different type of action with farmers, are distinct from operational temporalities. Those match to situations where the advisor makes with farmers’ temporalities (season, multi-year, emergency). He/ she learns how to handle a situation and an action at the right time and manner. However, having a strong autonomy, the advisor also faces individually the management of his/her own working time. This management is mainly personal despite the control of working time reported to the organization and collective discussion about the working activities. To face the diversity of tasks and time scarcity, the advisor has to learn how to jointly or separately do with various “presents” and time on and off work. This task, not assumed by the organization, remains widely invisible.