|
|
Travis
Beck
Major:
Agribusiness
Class: Senior
Place of Employment:
Butler Machinery Company
Address:
3401 33rd ST, SW PO Box 9559
Fargo, ND 58106
Dates of Internship: May 8 – Aug 20
Name of Supervisor:
Harold Slinden
Phone Number:1-800-873-8858
Ask for Harold Slinden!
Job Title:
Ag Sales Assistant
Job Responsibilities:
1)
To form a Customer prospect list.
2)
Working Fairs and Ag Shows
3)
Inventory attachment control
4)
Combine and Tractor demonstrations
|
|
What I liked about the job:
I liked having responsibilities, and being
relied upon. I like
working with very friendly people. I like selling a quality
product
to good people.
What I disliked about the job:
Sometimes I had a hard time fitting in between a
full time
employee and being just the intern.
This is a minor problem.
Areas that I need to learn more about:
I need to
learn how to conduct myself with my friends and also with
my coworkers and build a good working relationship and
maybe not
as friendly.
Kelly
Klinkhammer
|
|
|
|
Major:
Class:
|
Ag Industries Sales and Management
Senior
|
|
|
Place of Employment: Grygla
Alfalfa Growers Cooperative
Address: RR 1 Box 107
Grygla, MN 56727
Dates of Internship:
June 5, 2000 thru August 25, 2000
Name of Supervisor: Steve
Sparby
Phone Number: (218) 459-3316
Job Title:
Intern
|
|
|
|
Job Responsibilities:
I searched for alternative forage production ideas,
including identifying and locating production equipment and
prices, using the internet.
I also assisted in conducting an experiment on forage
quality.
|
|
Summarize Your Experience:
I enjoyed working for the GAGC. It gave me a chance to see how a small, newly forming
cooperative operates. I
expanded my knowledge of forage processing and also found many
interesting websites relating to this on the internet.
|
|
What I liked about the job:
Meeting new people, working with the members of the
cooperative.
|
|
What I disliked about the job:
Finding out the bale-dryer was not being shipped from Italy.
|
|
Areas that I need to learn more about:
Forage quality testing, proper forage harvesting time.
|
Delbert
Schindele
|
Major:
Class:
|
Ag Industries Sales and Management
Junior
|
|
Place of
Employment:
Address:
|
Aventis Crop Science
Grand Forks
ND 58201
|
|
Dates of
Internship:
|
May 8- August 22
|
|
Name of
Supervisor:
Phone Number:
|
Jordan Varberg
1-701-775-2700
|
|
Job Title:
|
Technical Agronomist Intern
|
|
Job
Responsibilities:
|
Supervising and Recording field data on
Canola strip trial plots.
|
|
Summarize Your
Experience:
|
A
very good experience in raising canola.
Involved great responsibility in recording data and
setting spray and seeding rates.
|
|
What I liked about
the job:
|
Ability to work at your own pace
throughout the week.
|
|
What I disliked about
the job:
|
Many long hours driving from site to
site.
|
|
Areas that I need to
learn more about:
|
Different Fungicide rates to spray on
canola.
|
Lisa
Detloff
|
|
Major:
Class:
|
Agribusiness & Business Management
Senior
|
|
|
Place of Employment:
Address:
|
Red River Trade Council
Crookston, MN 56716
|
|
|
Dates of Internship:
|
May 15-August 15, 2000
|
|
http://www.mfgnet.org/preview
http://www.rrtrade.org/
http://www.lisadetloff.com/
|
Name of Supervisor:
Phone Number:
|
Del Wright
(218) 281-8544
|
|
www.mfgnet.org/preview/meg
|
Job Title:
|
Web Publishing Specialist
|
|
http://www.mfgnet.org/preview/gvl
www.mfgnet.org/preview/
kidskollectibles
|
Job Responsibilities:
|
To design and build webpages for
businesses in the northern area and promote them to the search
engines.
|
|
Summarize Your
Experience:
During the
summer, I worked a lot with different software programs.
Things such as Paint Shop Pro, Net Objects Fusion, Net
Graphics, Adobe
Photoshop and Add Web were some of the things I learned
to do. I also
took close part in the start to finish of webpages, which
allowed me to work
personally with the customers.
|
|
What I liked about
the job:
I love the knowledge that I gained in computers
after taking this job. I
am
now able to take a webpage and go from start to finish.
I am also able to
construct my own personal webpage and understand more
about the
networking that goes on.
|
|
What I disliked about
the job:
Working with computers always required me to be
sitting and staring at a
computer screen each and every day.
As a person who grew up on a farm,
I have a hard time sitting still for that length of time. This type of work is
something that I will consider before I begin my
career.
|
Laura Pikop
|
|
Major:
Class:
|
Ag Industries Sales & Management
Senior
|
|
www.aventis.com
|
Place of Employment:
Address:
|
Aventis CropScience
|
|
Dates of Internship:
May 8 – August 17
|
|
Name of Supervisor:
Dean Maruska
|
|
Job Title: Technical
Service Intern
|
|
Job Responsibilities:
Plot maintenance
Mixing spray protocol
Plot Evaluation
Computer Work
Soil Sampling
|
|
Summarize Your Experience:
There are so many options within my career of choice that
its hard to tell where my future will entail. However, my
internship gave me a good variety to experience instead of
focusing on just one aspect. Working with the Tech Service
Rep, I did a lot of plot work that was confidential working
with new formulations besides what is on the market to provide
data and support for sales reps. I also did computer work,
scouting, spraying, plot maintenance, was involved with quite
a few plot tours (dealer and also corporate levels), and
worked with the area sales reps.
|
|
What I liked about the job:
I gained great first-hand experience in the ag chemical
industry and gained a new perspective from the chemical side.
I met lots of great people and got my “foot in the
door”.
|
|
What I disliked about the job:
It was difficult to plan anything personal as I never knew how
late I would work or where I would be. This is understandable
though as you never know what Mother Nature will throw your
way.
|
|
Areas that I need to learn more about:
Learning
is a never-ending process.
I would like to learn more about chemicals and how they
work.
Kraig
Nelson
|
This
is a 360 h.p. Case IH Quadtrac.
|
Major:
Class:
|
Agronomy & Agribusiness &
Business Management
Junior
|
|
This
particular model is a JD 8410T.
It is a 235 hp 22” row-crop tractor.
These are some links to the main
machinery manufacturing companies in our area.
These are listed in order of significance!! Ha
ha.
http://www.newholland.com/home.htm
http://www.caseih.com/
http://www.zieglerinc.com/index3.html
http://www.johndeere.com/deerecom
/default.htm
This is a link to my website.
http://www.ukjn002.com/
|
Place of Employment:
Nelson
Farms
Address: 17520 Co.
Hwy. 5
Lake Park, MN
56554
Dates of Internship: 1-1-00
to
12-31-00
Name of Supervisor: Curt
Nelson
Phone Number: (218)
238-5125
Job Title: Asst. Accountant, Data
Collection & Analyst
Job Responsibilities:
Keep track of the financial/data records involved in our
farming operation.
Summarize Your Experience:
During the summer, I worked a lot with different
software programs. Items such as MapInfo, Farm Works, Microsoft Office,
Microsoft ActiveSync, Farm HMS, Farm GPS, Ag Leader and
more still. I
used all of these programs to combine the data from our
farm to produce an accurate year-end summary.
|
|
What I liked about the
job: The knowledge that I gained in computers
during this experience.
|
|
What I disliked about the
job: Working with computers.
I get kind of bored or restless.
As a person who grew up on a farm, I have a hard
time sitting still for that length of time.
|
|
Areas that I need to learn more
about: Plain
and simply, accounting.
Besides that, I could learn more about
everything.
|
Shon
Naslund
|
|
Major: Agricultural
Industry Sales
and Management
Class: Senior
Place of Employment: R.D.
Offutt Potato Company
Address:
Rt. 4 P.O. Box 10B
Park Rapids, MN 56470
Dates of Internship: June 5th
2000 through August 21st
Name of Supervisor: Scott
Erickson
Phone Number:
1-218-732-1461
Job Title:
Agronomy Field Scout
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Job Responsibilities: To
check fields for plant disease, stem counts, and insect
problem areas.
Summarize Your Experience:
The work was very demanding it was a lot of hours
and long days but the money paid off.
The time you spent working was time you made
money instead of spending it, so the work was worth it.
I had the opportunity to be my own boss and I liked that
the most. I
would check in with my boss every three days and that
was nice I didn’t feel like there was someone there
watching me every move I made.
|
|
|
|
|
What I liked about the job: The
thing I liked most about my job was the chance to work
outside every day and the freedom to work the areas and
hours I wanted. I also like the experience of learning
how to work and communicate with my boss and managers on
a weekly bases.
|
|
|
What I disliked about the
job: Working with a changing schedule with the
weather was the hardest part along with learning the
rules of potato plants how they grew and knowing what to
look for as far as finding plant disease and insect
problems.
|
|
|
Areas that I need to learn more
about: How to listen better and to keep my
focus when under pressure in the work place and become a
better organizer of my time and work plan.
|
Ryan
Knutson
|
|
Major: Ag Business
Class: Junior
Place of Employment:
AGSCO Inc. of Crookston
Address:
Hwy. 75 south
Crookston, MN 56716
Dates of Internship: May
15 – August 5, 2000
Name of Supervisor: Shawn
Coauette
Phone Number: 281-2797
Job Title: Fielding
Mapping Assistant
|
|
|
|
Job Responsibilities: Making
field boundary maps for American Crystal Sugar.
Coordinating with American Crystal employees on missing
fields. Communicating with the field measuring teams and
coordinating their efforts.
|
|
Summarize Your Experience:
I had a very good learning experience at AGSCO. I
got to meet new and interesting people. I also got to
work with state of the art GPS equipment.
Overall it was a very valuable experience.
|
|
What I liked about the
job: Working with the GPS equipment. I also
got to learn how to use two new computer programs.
Getting to know new people.
|
|
What I disliked about the
job: My duties got repetitious from day to
day. Long
hours.
|
|
Areas that I need to learn more
about: I found
out I could work on my communication skills. I also
wished I would have taken more computer classes being
most of my work was done on the computer.
|
Kyle
Kraska
 Major:
Ag Industries and Sales
Management
Class: Senior
Place of employment:
UAP Midwest
Location: Big
Lake, MN
Nick
Osowski
|
|
Name: Nick Osowski
Major: Ag Industries
Sales and Management
Class:
Junior
(As of Fall 2000)
Place of Employment: Evergreen
Farms Inc.
Address: 6848 159th
Ave NE
City: Grafton
State/Province: ND
ZIP/Postal Code:
58237
Dates of Internship: April 20 – October 15
Name of Supervisor:
Lee Osowski
Phone Number: 1-701-352-1005
Job Title: Farm Assistant
Job Responsibilities: Playing an
active role in the planning, decision-making, and
managing the farm over the spring, summer and fall of
2000.
Summarize Your Experience: During
the internship I worked actively with the owners of
Evergreen Farms. I
took care of the book keeping for the spring planting,
made active decisions on when to cultivate crops or
spray, or when to work the crop under when to save.
I was actively involved in the maintenance of equipment,
which is a very important part of the farm with rising
equipment costs. I was also active in finding drivers
for beet harvest and making sure everyone was on time
and help to ensure that everything flowed.
What I liked about the job:
I liked the responsibility that I had this year
over all the other years.
I was into the decision making process which I
liked.
What I disliked about the job:
I did not like some of the long hours and not
having a specific time that I would be able to take off.
I also did not get to take many vacations over
the summer. But
that is what winter is for I guess.
Areas that I need to learn more about: I would like to learn more about commodity marketing
(the puts and calls) how to actively deal with the
buyers and contactors.
|
|
|
