Intern - Crop Technician
Role Overview
Position Overview: Crop Technician Interns perform various crop diagnostic jobs throughout the growing season.
These activities include but are not limited to scouting fields, collecting tissue samples, soil moisture probing, soil sampling, performing UAV flights, and assisting with field signs.
Crop Technician Interns play an important role in the services offered by Keystone Cooperative to make timely, informed, and economic decisions.
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Education and Experience:
- Currently enrolled in accredited college or university.
Responsibilities
- Include but are not limited to
- Scouting: Create scouting reports that identify weeds, insects, diseases, growth stages, stand counts, and any other field anomalies. Report observations back to Ag Tech team.
- UAV Flights: Utilize drones to make aerial observations, produce imagery, and collect data.
- Tissue Sampling: Collect corn or soybean tissue and prepare for testing.
- Soil Moisture Probing: Perform soil moisture tests in designated fields and report data back to Ag Tech team. Install moisture monitoring equipment used to make watering recommendation on irrigated field.
- Soil Sampling: Soil nitrate sample collection used to monitor in-season nutrient availability.
- Field Signs: Organize, place, and remove field signs.
- 100% travel in territory.
- 75% in fields, 25% in training/tours/events.
- Flexible work schedule.
- Weekly professional development activities.
- Skills and Qualifications:
- Ability to work outdoors for extended periods of time and under all weather conditions.
- Above average organizational skills, ability to understand new concepts, and learn quickly.
- Complete work with little or no supervision in a timely manner; self-motivated.
- Agronomy students preferred, however any student with a genuine interest in working in the agricultural/agronomy field is considered.
- Must have a valid driver’s license, good driving record, and reliable vehicle.
- Ability to use an iPad, GPS software, and field equipment.
About Keystone Cooperative
A farmer-owned agricultural cooperative serving Midwest family farms with energy, agronomy, grain, animal nutrition, and swine services.
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