Staff Agronomist
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Job Location:
Columbia, IN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Us: A career at MFA Incorporated is your opportunity to support farmers and ranchers in our communities. We focus on whole-farm solutions through continuous learning and a collaborative team spirit. At MFA team members are empowered to be strong customer partners and forward-thinking stewards of the land.
Responsibilities: This person will provide guidance technical expertise and agronomic knowledge to a team of consultants in a given territory. Provide leadership in areas of training sales and implementation of crop consulting programs. Promote the Crop-Trak program to location general and sales staff as well as customers in a given territory. Assist agronomy staff with training complaint calls and providing agronomic assistance to locations. Help in the acquisition and placement of crop consulting talent. Scout and consult on enrolled acres to assist the consultant team. Create synergy between crop consultants precision personnel location managers and sales staff. All duties should be performed in accordance with company policy.
What Youll Do
- Evaluation of recruiting and hiring of crop consultants and interns within the district
- Evaluation of crop consultant and intern development
- Evaluation of teamwork with other department ASMs and retail sales efforts in seed crop protection plant foods and general agronomic support of retail locations
- Crop Protection sales Plant Foods tons Corn Seed sales Soybean Seed Salessubject to alignment with regional goals
- Monthly Crop-Trak (Nutri-Track) sales and opportunity reports from salesforce accompanied by relative dates deadlines and other pertinent information
- Periodic updates at morning huddles including key processes events programs and requested technical advice
Benefits
- Medical Dental and Vision Insurance
- Health and Wellness Incentives
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Prescription Insurance
- 401k with Company Match
- Retirement Plan
- PTO on Day 1
- 9 Paid Holidays
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Educational Assistance
Qualifications
- B.S. degree in Agronomy or other agricultural degree or 5 to 10 years of crop consulting or agronomy-related experience preferred
- CCA Certification preferred
- Strong agronomy background
Apply If
- You desire to thrive in agriculture and seek a key role in the industry.
- You embody our commitment to success and reflect our company culture.
- You have or are willing to develop basic computer skills.
Join us in making a positive impact in agriculture. Apply today!
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
About Company
MFA Incorporated is a regional farm supply and farm service cooperative based in Missouri that serves row crop farmers and ranchers with locations in four states. MFA offers top-notch careers inside agriculture and we're proud to help our member/customers feed the world.
