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● Achieve assigned targets with products in coordination● Develop and implement dealer business plans, and manage forecasting● Serve as the key business consultant to retailers and dealer an effectively sell the value of products● Act as the business expert and plan for customer business needs

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Assist with all aspects of yield testing operations including agronomic execution and data collection within the Garden City Research Station maize breeding programs and wheat yield testing and other cropping systems projects.• Experiment and location planning, seed treating, seed filling, planting, spraying, data collection and harvesting of corn and wheat research locations within Kansas to further local product characterization and advancement.• Effectively execute, review, and summarize phenotyping activities and field operations.• Provide field operations and phenotyping/characterization support.• Participate in communicating with cooperators about current year needs for research crops.• Involved with preparation and maintenance of field equipment, which would include planter, sprayer, irrigation systems, and 2-plot combines; including operating complex electronics and GPS systems.• Ensure that spraying events and field cultivation are completed in a timely manner.• Assist with breeding program and research seed production activities, including seed preparation for planting, and pollinating • Monitor research locations during the growing season for weeds, insects, and disease pressure.• Assist with nutrient management, and herbicide planning.• Provide phenotyping support as a drone pilot for data collection.

Manhattan, Ks, Us

• Assist in field operations and rotations • Data management and analysis• Machinery operations and maintenance • Implement and maintain experiments • Application of pesticides

Manhattan, Ks, Us

• Developed and processed spectral images through UAV collection (throughput phenotyping)• Analyzed imagery for statistical selection methods using primarily SAS• Constructed phenotypic spectral prediction models • Assisted in soybean breeding activities including: harvest, seed packaging, planting, and field maintenance• Measured field plot quality including: lodging, height, and maturity • Planned and executed agronomic research projects• Provided and distribute information on research performance • Developed outline of research product potential through abstract and thesis development• Worked with secondary research projects producing influential selection criteria

Dodge City, Kansas, Us

• Field fertility planning derived from collecting samples and sending to lab and then producing recommendations based on company and university sufficiency or build and maintain formulas. • Provided timely agronomic information to producers• Helped resolve issues or concerns in product performance or agronomic concerns• Developed customized agronomic information for customer accounts• Prepared performance summaries of product applications • Planned and developed new areas for future business• Worked in correspondence with colleagues to help improve producer’s productivity• Lead correspondent for new area customers in both field agronomics and precision agriculture

• Provided timely agronomic information such as moisture depletion, weed pressure, stand counts, and disease pressure• Aided in field herbicide recommendations based on weed pressure and crop growth stages• Prescribed irrigation recommendations derived from oakfield and penetrometer soil moisture probe reading and expected evapotranspiration rates of the cropping growth stages• Field fertility planning derived from collecting samples and sending to lab and then producing recommendations based on company and university sufficiency or build and maintain formulas

• Assisted plot scale chemical application and efficacy trials• Assisted in research plot activities including; planting, harvesting, collecting tissue samples, corn pollination and field maintenance• Measured field plot quality including: efficacy herbicide ratings, stand counts, and plant health

Master Of Science In Agriculture, Breeding And Genetics

Agronomy And Crop Science