Agronomy Operations Manager

Lennard Ag Company is a family-owned, three-generations deep farming operation that’s been producing and delivering quality vegetables and grain crops since 1947. Specializing in potatoes, tomatoes, seed corn and commercial corn, we grow over 12,000 acres. We combine strong industry traditions with cutting-edge agricultural practices, advanced technology, and the latest management practices. Anchored by our strong history, Lennard Ag Company’s modern operations are complemented by their care for the land, their community and the people with whom they work.

We're hiring for an Agronomy Operations Manager to execute the agronomic program for all fields in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina. You would be ensuring quality crops and an efficiently lead agronomy department. You would coordinate all fertigation and spray programs working with ag retails and vendors to complete. You would lead the field scouts and an assistant who assists with documentation and compliance tracking.

Our ideal candidate brings agronomy knowledge and has worked in an ag retail location leading operations, inventory and scheduling.

We offer highly competitive compensation plus health benefits, disability benefits, life insurance and paid time off. Relocation assistance available.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a strong relationship with the CEO, Operations Manager, and Subsidiary Farm Managers. Establish an effective, periodic communication plan with management and subordinates.
• Promote agricultural strategies to counter the effects of changes in soil, climate, weather, and pest damage.
• Ensure testing of soil and petiole samples for nutritional deficiencies, diseases, or other changes.
• Maintain detailed records regarding fields, customers, crops, and samples.
• Generate reports and present findings to management.
• Develop planting, fertigation and irrigation schedules, and timelines.
• Develop and implement programs addressing agronomic issues including integrated pest management (IPM), crop input requirements and timely field inspection programs. Provide pesticide and agronomic recommendations to optimize quality and yield.
• Work with and provide support to Production Agronomists in all production areas by providing timely field visits throughout the production season.
• General administrative management duties including securing products, signing vendor contracts, collecting & preparing & inputting data for GAAP requirements.
• Supervise employees and third-party personnel as required including Production Agronomist, Crop Scouts, third party scouting firms and chemical/fertilizer application contractors.

Recommended Skills

• Administration
• Agronomy
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Integrated Pest Management (Agronomy)
• Regulatory Compliance
• Retailing