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Bayer CropScience
Bayer CropScience offers Canadian farmers a wide choice of solutions with an integrated product portfolio of crop protection products, seed treatment technologies and plant biotechnology.
Territory Sales Assistant
As a Terriroty Sales Assistant for a crop science and protection company, I find that my job makes a difference because we are at the forefront of new agricultural technologies.
Territory Sales Manager
As a Territory Sales Manager of an innovative crop science and protection company, I work with our company to strive for innovation to increase farmers’ profit and yield.
Global Potato News
Global Potato News strives to be the most compelling portal site for the potato industry world-wide. Registering on Global Potato News will give you access to members-only sections of the site, as well as the opportunity to sign up for potato related newsletters. The members-only sections include global industry trends, potato statistics, registered patents related [...]
Irrigated and Specialty Crop Specialist
I provide horticulture crop producers with information and answers related to their various production-related questions.
Viterra
As global demand for agricultural commodities in food, animal feed, fibre and bio-fuels continues to grow, Viterra is well-positioned to meet this demand with the strength to compete globally. The company owns and operates Canada’s largest grain handling network.
Eigen Factor Science Browser
Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations. Eigenfactor uses the structure of the entire network (instead of purely local citation information) to evaluate the importance of each journal.
DynAgra International
DynAgra develops and sells innovative solutions that meet both the economic and agronomic needs of today’s farmer. The organization is dedicated to helping growers maintain more productive and sustainable farm businesses through the continued innovation of agriculture products and services.
Alberta Greenhouse Growers Association
The Alberta Greenhouse Growers Association (AGGA) is an association of growers, educators and allied trades people whose mission is to serve its members by promoting and strengthening the industry in Alberta.
Lacombe Research Centre
The Lacombe Research Centre, a research centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, is located in the town of Lacombe in central Alberta between the two large cities of Edmonton and Calgary, approximately 23 km north of Red Deer.
Western Grains Research Foundation
Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) is a farmer funded and directed organization set up to fund research that directly benefits Prairie farmers. The Foundation administers an Endowment Fund and the Wheat and Barley Check-off Funds. Annual research funding is $4 to $5 million.
DuPont Canada: Agriculture
DuPont Canada’s mission is to deliver global nutrition through higher crop yields and healthier foods while developing solutions to help meet the world’s energy needs. Visit DuPont’s website to find out how careers at DuPont can be rich and varied for creative and talented people.
Sod Farm Equipment Operator / Truck Driver
Working under the Sod Farm Manager the equipment operator plants and harvests the sod crop at the direction of the estimator using heavy equipment such as a bobcat or skid steer loader.
Sod Farm Worker
Workers perform a variety of routine chores under the direction of the turf farm manager or supervisor, including: rock picking, irrigation, fence line boundary preparation, installing base mesh, seeding, fertilizing and harvesting.
Working Supervisor
The main duties of the working supervisor on a field vegetable farm include: supervising employees, hands on operation of tractors and other farm implements, scheduling staff and providing training and orientation for new employees, overseeing planting, seeding, setting up irrigation, fertilizing, pesticide spraying, harvesting crops, processing and packing orders. The supervisor is expected to possess good time management skills, as well as work full time and up as needed.
Fieldworker, Equipment Operator
The main duties include: operating farm machinery; planting, cultivating, fertilizing, weeding, irrigating, spraying and harvesting crops; repairing and maintaining farm machinery, equipment and buildings; and, preparing produce for market. Depending on the commodity or crop, work may start in April and continue until the end of October.
BioVision Seed Labs
BioVision Seed Labs specializes in developing and offering confidential, fast, and accurate seed and grain testing services to clients across Canada and the US.
Chinook Applied Research Association
Chinook Applied Research Association (CARA) is a producer-directed society dedicated to expanding agricultural research and demonstration activity. We provide a link in the transfer of technology between research and the producer. Producers, industry, government and others can access reliable data on crop, livestock and soils projects that is relevant to the area and its soil climatic conditions.
Crop Sciences Laboratory Technician
Crop sciences is the study of food plants from seed to harvest. In this field a lab technician might need a green thumb as well as an affinity for science and research. Bacteria, molds, insects, weeds, and weather are just a few of the many factors that influence the health and productivity of a crop. Breeding and analyzing new varieties of crop plants can lead to better production yields for primary producers. Working as a Crop Sciences Laboratory Technician may mean working anywhere from a government lab testing plant varieties to a private chemical company creating herbicide-resistant species.
Government of Canada, Science and Innovation
From start to finish, new technologies cover every aspect of food and non-food production systems, changing the way Canadians grow, process, preserve, transport, distribute and even shop for food.” People interested in careers in science would find it interesting to examine the depth of opportunity in Agriculture and Food.
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More Than You Think!
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