Fontanelle Offers Unique Internship

June 6, 2007

This summer Fontanelle Hybrids, Fontanelle, Nebraska has six college students from universities in Fontanelle's marketing area helping out with customer service. "Our Intern Program is unique because of the amount of customer contact the college students have each day of their internship " Steve Pike, president said. "We ask them to meet with growers to gather in-field data about Fontanelle's top hybrids, called Dominators."

Fontanelle has over 1,000 side-by-side competitive comparisons in the ground. "For our customers to have the best placement information possible, we feel that we need to have data about that hybrid all season long, not just at harvest," Pike said. "That's where the interns come in-to help us gather all that data. From the interns' standpoint, they gain invaluable experience meeting growers, seeing agronomics first hand and learning to work with tools such as GPS locators."

The team of six interns includes:

Andy Bowen, Shelbina, Missouri-Bowen attends Northwest Missouri State University majoring in ag business. He plans on graduating in May of 2008.
Adam Glover, Burbank, South Dakota-Glover attends South Dakota State University majoring in agriculture. He plans on graduating this December.
Russell Kavan, Wahoo, NE -Kavan attends University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE majoring in agronomy. He plans on graduating in May of 2008.
Eric Klein, Minneapolis, Kansas -Klein attends Fort Hays State University majoring in agronomy. He plans on graduating in May of 2008.
Nick Sawyer, Toledo, Iowa-Sawyer attends Iowa State University, Ames, IA majoring in agricultural studies. He plans on graduating in May of 2008.
Ira Spanel, Anselmo, NE-Spanel attends University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE majoring in agricultural economics. He plans on graduating in May of 2008.

Fontanelle Hybrids markets corn, soybeans, grain sorghum, alfalfa and sunflowers in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri and portions of Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Texas as an independent operating company within American Seeds Inc, a holding company of Monsanto.