United Agricultural Cooperative, Inc.

Summer Internship

United Agricultural Cooperative offers interns the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the day-to-day operations of a diversified agricultural cooperative. Interns will work alongside cooperative staff, interact with producer-members, and gain exposure to grain, cotton, accounting, scale operations, and other areas of cooperative business.

Internship responsibilities may include:

• Entering daily grain prices and basis information for corn and milo
• Reviewing and verifying scale tickets from previous business days and weekends
• Assisting with scale operations as needed
• Traveling to elevator locations to help ensure staff have necessary aflatoxin testing supplies
• Conducting aflatoxin testing on incoming corn loads
• Assisting with grain settlements and other producer account activities
• Entering Return on Account checks and assisting with administrative and accounting tasks
• Entering producer farm and field information into the PCCA system
• Learning about cotton gin operations and the role cotton plays within the cooperative
• Assisting with the production and packaging of deer corn products
• Participating in educational and outreach activities, including FFA tours
• Attending United Agricultural Cooperative’s annual meeting
• Building relationships with cooperative members and learning directly from area farmers and producers

Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a degree in an agriculture-related field at a four-year university
• Completed at least sophomore-level coursework
• Cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with agricultural producers
• Self-motivated, reliable, flexible, teachable, and willing to work in a variety of environments
• Experience or demonstrated interest in cotton ginning, grain operations, farm supply, or other areas of agricultural production
• Relevant coursework in areas such as accounting, communications, futures and options, agricultural economics, soil science, or related subjects is preferred

This internship is designed to provide students with a broad understanding of agricultural cooperative operations while developing practical skills in grain marketing, member relations,  accounting, communications, and agricultural production.