By: Jack Taylor, Agriculture Communication & Marketing Major Hometown: Burnsville, Minnesota During the past summer, I worked as a field intern for Sound Agriculture, a biological research company. Although the company was based out of California, I worked primarily in Minnesota. The main duty I had as a field intern was to help with the coordination of research trials in my territory. Through this role I served as a brand ambassador for Sound Agriculture. My responsibilities included speaking with trial participants and asking them key questions to build grower profiles and gathering any relevant information to help with the logistics of the trials such as planting and application dates. These tasks were completed by driving out to the trials myself and then communicating what was recorded with shared documents or spreadsheets made by the company. It was my duty to reach each of the trials in a given time frame, but it was my choice to schedule each day out the way I wanted. I believe that flexibility and solving problems under pressure were extremely important for this role. Growing up in a suburb instead of on a farm, I was new to many things in this position. I had never before had in depth conversations with farmers about how they earn their living. I learned a large amount of information that was directly applicable to things I previously learned in the classroom. This job helped me build my navigational skills both driving out to trials, and when I was deep in an eight-foot-tall corn field taking samples. The hands on experience and discussions with these growers helped me understand things more clearly. My knowledge of agriculture and current growing conditions increased tremendously because of the work I completed this summer.
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