Gifts and Awards Josh Allen is the director of operations at Coastal AgroBusiness. In the summer of 1995, alumnus Josh Allen spent a lot of time in farm fields. Still an undergraduate in the Agricultural Institute (AGI), he accepted a summer internship with Coastal AgroBusiness and got his hands dirty. For a few months he scouted crops and helped the company’s customers – mainly farmers – make decisions about growth regulators and pest control. “It was between my second and third year in the Ag Institute,” Allen says. “I interned that summer of 1995 and upon graduation in 1996 started with Coastal AgroBusiness in sales and agronomy.” Allen credits that internship with crucial experience that helped him start his career. Now the director of operations, Allen wants the same experience for students coming through AGI today. “I don’t know where I’d be today without that internship,” says Allen. “Now, as an employer who hires folks for our company, I’m looking at resumes that show potential hires who can work in their field of study. Internships show commitment and ambition.” Coastal AgroBusiness is one of CALS’ generous scholarship donors for this exact reason. Created in 2013, the J.C. Whitehurst Jr. […]
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