Jackson Meisner

- Picked summer commercial produce en masse (strawberries, squash, melons, potatoes, onions)

- Laid/removed tarp with tractor assistance

- Collected soil samples for testing

- Packaged and shipped summer commercial produce en masse

- Conducted field maintenance and irrigation placement

- Maintained crops from germination to harvesting within a greenhouse

- Operated a working farm stand and interacted with the local community to sell produce

- Operated a BCS tractor for creating rows and beds

- Assisted is crop harvesting, packaging, and cleaning

- Learned the basic everyday tasks for farm maintenance during the summer growing season

- Studied and applied various means of Intergraded Pest Management strategies to combat nuisances such as Deer, Potato Beatles, and Aphids

- Daily maintenance of field rows and crops through seed planting, weed clearing, and tarp placement in preparation for future crops

- Learned how to operate machinery used for field maintenance such as power hoes, lawnmowers, and mulch distributors

- Learned how to count and maintain inventory of collected crops

- Occasionally learned how to work with volunteers and manage large groups of visitors through basic tasks

- Completed various tasks for hundreds of peanut samples every day such as sorting, measuring, weighing, and packing

- Operated simple machinery associated with peanut sorting such as scales and sorting machines

- Learned how to separate peanut samples through complex machinery that specifically helped measure humidity content

- Regularly worked in wheat and maize fields collecting samples for study

- Operated machinery for pressing and cleaning maize and wheat seed for packaging

- Routinely cleaned operating warehouse and machinery