Agronomy Internship

A Premier Ag Internship is intended to provide a top educational experience with practical skills development and application. It is a unique learning opportunity in a fast-paced team-oriented environment where successful candidates will receive the training they need and are given the opportunity to apply what they have learned.

Premier Ag Agronomy Internship Objectives

• Attract top talent to Premier Ag
• Assess Intern’s potential to be a future Premier Ag employee throughout the 12-week period.
• Provide challenging, professional, Intern skill development
• Identify a Summer Project interest if applicable.
• A Premier Ag Internship is not intended to secure temporary labor, its full intent is to provide a top education experience with skill development to college recruits with the expectation that the intern will develop a desire to work for Premier Ag in the future if they meet Premier Ag employment standards.

Agronomy Intern Job Accountabilities

• Field Scouting (observations)
• FieldAlytics software
• R7 tool
• Diagnostics & technical
• Intern agronomy training
• Soil Sampling
• Tissue Sampling
• Account Manager and sales support
• Scouting
• Delivery
• Aerial application operational support
• Mapping
• Delivery
• TRAX support
• Premier Ag Sustain
• Software
• Mapping
• CropLink
• Corporate support
• Field Days
• Field signage
• Meeting set-up and breakdown
• Transport of samples as required
• Other as needed
• Sales Project if assigned
• To be determined
• With assistance, plan and execute agronomy sales activity(s)
• Project support
• Aerial application

Requirements

Intern Responsibilities

• Share learning interests or special project interests to manager.
• Provide feedback to manager for Mid-Summer Evaluation
• Send weekly email updates to the manager.
• Complete or hand off any projects by August 1st
• Any project presentations should be about what they learned in conducting, researching, and implementing their project.

Manager Responsibilities

• Mentor and develop talent over summer.
• Conduct frequent touchpoints through the week
• Proactive Communication
• Establish intern project (if applicable) by March 1st.
• Conduct mid-summer evaluation
• Conduct final evaluation after project presentation.

The Premier Ag Agronomy Interns will report directly to Emily Welch, Account Manager/Intern Program Manager