Do you have a passion for agriculture, commodities, and marketing? Check out our Grain Merchandising to gain hands-on grand merchandising experience in a cooperative setting.

As a Grain Merchandising Intern for NEW Cooperative, you will have the opportunity to be involved in the following:

• Logistics and Merchandising: experience the day-to-day efforts of a merchandiser and understand the logistical demands of a purchaser of grain
• Track industry basis levels and manager the posting of closing grain bids
• Mitigate price risk: assist with management of the company’s hedge deck
• Develop an awareness and understanding of a variety of grain contracts
• Help customers with their marketing by explaining contract concepts that meet their marketing goals
• Inventory and regulatory compliance: ensure compliance with state and federal commodity regulations
• PLUS, MORE!

Learn more about NEW Cooperative’s Grain Internship HERE!

Intern Testimony

Phoebe Sanders

Phoebe grew up in Eagle Grove, IA, on a 4th generation row crop family farm. She currently attends Iowa State University majoring in Agriculture Business with a minor Marketing. Phoebe has always seen NEW Cooperative being a big apart of her community but walking around ISU career fair is what sparked her interest in the company. “At the career fair you could just see that they were a very professional company and the people there were extremely personable” A normal day for Phoebe is: looking at hedge statement to make sure everything matches, adding any overnight trades, start the hedge desk when the markets open up, working on a logistics project to help promote efficiency in the company, entering overnight offers, and shipping trucks. 

Phoebe’s favorite part of her internship has been “all of the knowledge that I have gained. Getting to learn from such a knowledgeable team in the grain department, they make me feel welcomed.” “It’s fun to come to work every day.” 

Phoebe feels the biggest benefit of working with NEW Cooperative is “I think once you are here you are part of their family which is unique because sometimes when you go places and work you feel like the intern and here I don’t feel like the intern. You get to learn hands on, and I think that’s an opportunity that not a lot of kids get when they go to an internship; they have to watch someone else do it, but here they let you do it and they help you and want you to succeed. A lot of places want you to succeed but NEW is going to do everything they can to make sure succeed.”