Agronomy Ambassador Blog

Since I have come back to Purdue to start my senior year, it has been full of lasts. The last first day of the academic year, the last recruitment with my sorority, and moving in for the last time at Purdue. When thinking on these experiences, I am feeling incredibly grateful, while also slightly sad.…

With his summer being my fourth internship, I chose to work for Co-Alliance as a Specialized Agronomy Intern. I did many different jobs this summer from spreading fertilizer and learning how to spray beans to hauling ammonia tanks to farmers. The main projects I did had to deal with 2 test trials with a few…

Although I am a junior, this past summer was my first internship. Going into the summer I was scared to start this new adventure in life. This was the first time I had ever worked a semi long-term job away from home. Nervously, I went the first day and fell in love. I spent the…

This summer I had the opportunity to do an internship with PowerPollen in Ames, Iowa. PowerPollens’s main focus is collecting, preserving and applying pollen on demand in seed corn production fields. They have engineered technologies that improve seed production which enables more effective cross-pollination. A few of my tasks as a biology intern were assisting…

This summer I had the pleasure of working with Advanced Agrilytics as a Field Specialist Intern. My roles as an intern were to scout certain growers’ acres every 7-10 days, looking for any issues and assessing the crop. I also had the responsibility of making field reports weekly to send to farmers about how their…

Wow, how did this go so fast? That was the question I asked myself as I moved back to Purdue for my senior year. I had a great last summer internship with Syngenta. I was the Indiana Crop Protection Sales intern. During my internship, I was able to ride along with all the reps in…

This summer I had the opportunity to Intern with Advanced Agrilytics. During the summer I had the opportunity to meet and interact with farmers, and also was able to learn what an agronomist does on a daily basis. I was able to attend multiple training sessions which consisted of all central Indiana agronomists.  Being able…

As I look back over my career here at Purdue, it amazes me what I have been through and how I have changed for the better as a person. From a normal freshmen semester to being sent home for covid as a beginning, things could not have been any weirder. I remember from my first…