{"id":9361,"date":"2025-09-22T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/?p=9361"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:06:13","slug":"time-marches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/time-marches-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Marches On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">Hello! My name is Justin Bedel, and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">I\u2019m<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\"> a sophomore from Greensburg, Indiana, studying Agronomy with a concentration in Crop and Soil Management. This is my first year as an ambassador, and I am so excited to share what the Department of Agronomy has to offer prospective students. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">It&#8217;s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\"> hard to believe <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">we\u2019re<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\"> already four weeks into the semester. It feels like just yesterday I was starting my summer internship with Premier Ag. As an Agronomy Operations Intern, I had the chance to help farmer account representatives scout fields to ensure healthy crop development. I also <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">assisted<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\"> with product <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">logistics<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\"> for growers and helped <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">maintain<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\"> trial plots that teach farmers methods for achieving high yields. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">I&#8217;m<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\"> looking forward to what this sophomore year will bring and plan to use the experiences from my <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\">freshman<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147852296 BCX0\"> year and my internship to build on my success in the classroom.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW147852296 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Justin Bedel, and I\u2019m a sophomore from Greensburg, Indiana, studying Agronomy with a concentration in Crop and Soil Management. This is my first year as an ambassador, and I am so excited to share what the Department of Agronomy has to offer prospective students. It&#8217;s hard to believe we\u2019re already four&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9362,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}