GROWMARK Agronomy Intern – AGRIS Co-Operative Ltd. – West Chatham, ON

The FS brand represents a standard of excellence for agricultural and energy-related products. It’s the people who represent the FS brand that set it apart. As local cooperatives, FS Companies believe it is their responsibility to ensure that our earth, our communities, and businesses perform together, sustainably. FS Companies are committed to ensuring the continued profitability for the company, their owners, and their customers, while enacting to help the environment and greater good.

AGIRS Co-operative Ltd. jobsnear.org Summer Project Manager Intern – Nitrogen Tracking jobsnear.org Agriculture

Are you looking for a hands-on summer internship opportunity supporting local farms and farm families in your community to expand their participation in the Agri-Food Value Chain?

AGRIS Co-operative Ltd. has a Summer Project Manager Intern opportunity for a motivated Student to join our AGRIS Team. As a Summer Project Manager Intern, you will have the opportunity to work on a project using a nitrogen tracking model capture and track Nitrogen through the crop life cycle and develop your agriculture knowledge with hands on experience, as well as gain an understand careers available at AGRIS.

What will you be responsible for:

• Provide an exceptional customer experience at every interaction
• Working with Senior Agronomist and Crop Specialist to identify farm participants
• Work closely with the AGRIS Team across the system to leverage the knowledge and systems need to support the project.

Project highlights:

• Adapt N from Yara, a nitrogen tracking model to follow the nitrogen supply through the season with selected farmers to learn more on how N supply behaves through the season.
• Deliver results to customers in a timely manner
• Entry level new skills development opportunity also includes:
• Become proficient in creating topographic surface maps from collected imagery.
• Develop concave / convex surface features for nitrogen management.
• Other agronomic duties as required including collecting plant tissue, weed samples, and nitrate Nitrogen soil samples.
• Support of agronomic recommendations
• Awareness of sustainability issues such as 4R Stewardship
• Extended hours, as required, during the busy season

Requirements for this Job:

• Farming experience an asset
• Maintain a Valid Drivers License
• Travel as required to support Farm Owner & Branch needs across AGRIS Co-operative Market
• Drone license or obtain one by writing the online test at Transport Canada
• Learn to operate the Phantom 4 drone and sensors (in house training)
• Become proficient in using the cloud-based services to perform analytics (training by service provider)

If you are interested in furthering your development towards a Career in Agriculture as part of an industry leader, developing innovative solutions and enhancing the profitability of our members, we want to meet with you!

About AGRIS Co-operative Ltd.

AGRIS Co-operative Ltd. is a dynamic and successful farmer owned Co-operative that prides itself on providing quality agronomic and grain marketing solutions for our customer/owners. We are a leader in precision farming technology, seed, and agronomy and petroleum services.

AGRIS Co-operative Ltd. is a 100 per-cent farmer-owned grain marketing and farm-input supply company that serves more than 1,000 farmer owners in 14 locations in Essex, Kent, Elgin, Middlesex, and Lambton Counties. It is a leader in precision farming technology, seed, agronomy, and petroleum services.

The co-operative is a partner of Great Lakes Grain, a grain merchandising company. AGRIS Co-operative is a member-owner of GROWMARK, Inc. and markets products and services under the FS banner.

We have branches located in Brigden, Chatham, Cottam, Dutton, Glencoe, Leamington, McGregor, Muirkirk, Rochester, Stoney Point, Thamesford, Thamesville, Tupperville and Wheatley.

FS. Bringing You What’s Next. We are an equal opportunity employer, including protected veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities. Employment may be contingent upon receipt of an acceptable and job-related background check, motor vehicle report, and/or reference check, as applicable and permissible by law.

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