Agronomy Ambassador Blog

Hello everyone! Over this past summer, I had the opportunity to intern with Laughery Valley Ag in southeast Indiana. During this internship, I was able to do a wide variety of different tasks including working with farmers to help make better management decisions. This may involve scouting some of their fields and determining if the…

Time at school always seems to fly by. I think the weather has thrown me off this fall, blinding me to the fact that it’s the middle of November with weather in the 60s and 70s recently. Now that we enter the last few weeks of the fall semester, it is important to stay disciplined…

Recently a group of us from the Agronomy Club traveled to San Antonio Texas for the National SASES meeting. This meeting takes place at the same time as the Tri-societies conference takes place. The Tri-societies is a professional organization that includes soils, crops, and environmental science. SASES is just the undergrad version of this. There…

Being a part of the Purdue Soils Judging Team has been one of my favorite activities that I have done during my time at Purdue. I have been on the team for the past 3.5 years and have competed in different contests in multiple areas across the state. This semester our team traveled to Carbondale,…

Over fall break I traveled with the soils judging team to Carbondale, Illinois for the regional contest! Soils judging has become one of my favorite activities in college, but I had no idea what it was before meeting with my agronomy advisor for the first time. She recommended it to me, and I signed up…

During my time, I have taken a few challenging classes. This is actually something I would recommend to students. Often, difficult classes can end up being some of the best classes information-wise. They can be the ones you learn the most from. Although it does take more time and dedication to these classes, to keep…

This past summer was spent out in the field with Advanced Agrilytics. I really enjoyed scouting this summer. If you ask many colleagues in agronomy, everyone of them would say that every aspiring agronomist has put their “time in” being a field scout. Thinking back to this summer being a field scout for Advanced Agrilytics,…

Job searching can be quite daunting, especially when you begin the search. Here are some tips that I have found to be helpful during my search for a job.  I would recommend starting the job search early on in the semester or perhaps even the semester before. Finding the right job can take some time. …

Hello everyone! My name is Logan Grieger and I am a junior here at Purdue University, studying Agronomy with a concentration in Crop and Soil Management. Along with my major, I am pursuing a minor in both Farm Management and Agricultural Systems Management. I come from a long line of farmers near Valparaiso, Indiana, but…