Internship Program - Multiple Positions

Grow Your Career with Central Valley Ag Your future in agriculture starts here.

Since 2011, the Central Valley Ag Internship Program has provided college students with the opportunity to gain real-world experience, explore careers in agriculture, and build relationships with professionals across the cooperative.

At CVA, our interns aren't here just to observe—they become part of the team. During our 10-week summer internship program, students gain hands-on experience, take on meaningful projects, develop professional skills, and discover where a career in agriculture can take them.

Our internship program is also an important part of building CVA's future. We want to get to know the next generation of agricultural leaders, help them grow, and create opportunities for talented interns to return to CVA as full-time employees after graduation.

Grain and Agronomy Operations: Get hands-on experience with the work that keeps a cooperative running. Operations interns experience a variety of roles within CVA's agronomy and grain businesses. From assisting with application and seed delivery to working around grain elevators and supporting day-to-day location operations, you'll gain a firsthand understanding of how essential operations are to CVA and the producers we serve.

Agronomy Sales: Take your classroom knowledge to the field. Agronomy interns work alongside experienced CVA team members while scouting fields, assisting with product and seed delivery, learning about crop production, exploring new agricultural technologies, and gaining exposure to both the sales and operational sides of a cooperative. If you're interested in crops, working with producers, or seeing agriculture in action, this is an opportunity to get your boots in the field and learn firsthand.

Grain: Explore the business side of agriculture and discover how grain moves from the farm to the marketplace. Grain interns work alongside CVA's Grain Team while gaining exposure to grain origination, merchandising, commodity markets, and producer relationships. From grain pricing and contracts to elevator operations, transportation, and marketing grain to end users, you'll learn how the entire grain lifecycle connects within CVA and the broader agricultural industry. If you're interested in agricultural economics, commodity markets, sales, or working with producers, this is an opportunity to experience the grain industry firsthand and explore careers in grain origination and merchandising.

Feed: Explore the livestock and feed industry while working alongside CVA's Feed Team. Interns gain exposure to feed sales, customer relationships, mill operations, and the business processes that support our feed division. Through job shadowing and hands-on experiences at different locations, you'll see what it takes to serve livestock producers and build a career in the feed industry.

Energy: Help keep agriculture moving. CVA's Energy Internship provides experience in both Energy Sales and Operations across Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas. Interns may assist with testing tanks, servicing customers, learning about energy products, and experiencing the day-to-day work required to support producers and their operations.

Grain and Agronomy Operations: Get hands-on experience with the work that keeps a cooperative running. Operations interns experience a variety of roles within CVA's agronomy and grain businesses. From assisting with application and seed delivery to working around grain elevators and supporting day-to-day location operations, you'll gain a firsthand understanding of how essential operations are to CVA and the producers we serve.

Marketing: Put your creativity to work in agriculture. Marketing interns work alongside CVA's Marketing Team on projects such as video production, social media, website strategy, graphic design, printed materials, and promotional campaigns. You'll also experience CVA's in-house Print Shop and see how ideas become everything from direct mail pieces and marketing materials to truck decals and billboards.

Your internship is an opportunity to gain experience, build your network, develop your skills, and discover where you fit in the future of agriculture. Don't just spend your summer at a job. Build experience that can launch your career.

Grow with us. Learn with us. Build your future with CVA. Join the Central Valley Ag Internship Program and be part of something more.