Field Agronomist Internship
- Employer
- Black Gold Farms
- Location
- East Grand Forks, Minnesota
- Salary
- $14.00 - $16.00 per hour
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- Industry
- Agriculture
Job Details
Black Gold Farms has a position open for a FIELD AGRONOMIST INTERN at our East Grand Forks, MN farm. This position will assist with raising high quality, profitable potatoes through the duties described below.
- Collect data and generate reports from information gathered through scouting and tissue collection
- Familiarize themselves with the stages of potato plant growth, potato insects, diseases, and weeds
- Assist with crop yield and quality monitoring
- Participate in seed cutting monitoring and seed placement during planting
- Assist with irrigation management by monitoring field moisture, irrigation & rainfall amounts daily
Requirements
Candidates should be pursuing an agricultural related degree. Experience working with potatoes is not required. Applicants must be able to receive a private pesticide applicator's license. This is a paid internship with a flexible start and end dates, occurring at different times throughout 2023.
Interns will also have the opportunity to receive up to $800 in tuition reimbursement upon completion of the internship.
Summary
Who We Are:
Black Gold Farms is recognized as a leader in the potato production industry for our high-quality potatoes, our sales, and our customer service. We have been around since 1928. That’s over 90 years of digging deeper and living life by our seven aspects of culture; Values, Transparency, Team, Excellence, Customer, Passion, and Innovation. With a fourth-generation family-owned company like this you truly end up becoming part of the family.
Job Type: Internship
Pay: $14.00 - $16.00 per hour
Company
It takes many skilled and talented people doing many things right to successfully grow, harvest, sell and distribute potatoes and other crops throughout the United States.
We work on the farm, in the field, at the office and on the road. We do what we can to be good stewards of the land, good community members and good industry partners.
We are the people who make up Black Gold Farms, a global production, sales and service operation. Every day, we go the extra distance for your plate, community and world. We can't wait for you to join the team.
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