My name is Burger Lambrechts. I will be starting my senior year at UNL studying Mechanized Systems Management and competing for the Husker track and field team. I am from South Africa, and I didn’t grow up on a farm, but I have a big passion for agriculture. I am an agronomy intern at the…
Continue readingMy name is Kayla Geyer, and this summer I have the privilege of being an intern with Prairie Valley Seed. I cover the west side of Nebraska as well as some areas in Kansas and Colorado. I currently am starting my senior year of college at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. At Northwest…
Continue readingMy name is Caden Schuster and I am an agronomy intern with the precision crop management team. Next fall I will be a junior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I am majoring in Ag Econ with minors in agronomy and precision agriculture. I have spent most of my time this summer working in the…
Continue readingThe Aurora Cooperative Carleton location received some upgrades including a 500,000 gallon 32-0-0 tank, along with bulk tanks for N-Stat, Prolock, and zinc. Along with the bulk tank investments, they also upgraded to a Kahler system and did away with the old system of loading to a weigh tank to the farmers tank. Location manager…
Continue readingThe Aurora Cooperative Doniphan location received a huge upgrade with a new facility in a new location. Our new facility is location at 2026 W Binfield Road in Doniphan. The new facility has a significant amount of room for trucks to get around with a new loadout system for fertilizer. The loadout system allows for…
Continue readingThe Aurora Cooperative Minden facility gained a 500,000 UAN tank and new loadout system to increase both the speed and capacity in their area. With the technological advancements in farming, we know our growers need more inputs in a smaller window of time. Randall Horine, Minden location manager, said last spring they ran out of fertilizer…
Continue readingMy name is Jared Sullivan, and this summer I have been an agronomy intern at the Grant, Nebraska location. Most days I find myself out in fields scouting for weeds and pests or pulling tissue samples for test results. The fields I have been watching are all part of the Yield Advantage program, so at…
Continue readingMy name is Thomas Schimmer and I am interning at the Grand Island and Central City Agronomy locations this summer. Coming into this internship I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was excited to get the opportunity to learn a lot while interning here at Aurora Cooperative. My focus will be with the agronomy…
Continue readingAlthough it’s really only been about a week and a half here with Aurora Cooperative, I’m finding that there is already a ton that I’ve learned and seen. This summer I will be interning out of the York, Nebraska location working primarily as an agronomy intern, but will also gain some exposure on the sales…
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