What are the responsibilities and job description for the Crop Intern - Summer 2025 position at Farm Bureau Financial Services?
Crop Intern - Summer 2025
Farm Bureau Financial Services has a new internship opportunity available for individuals to gain experience in the crop insurance industry. This position will be have some field and office responsibilities. During the internship you'll be exposed to other lines of insurance with a primary focus on crop insurance.
What You'll Do: As a Crop Insurance Intern, you will be able to participate in a full crop insurance cycle alongside one of the department's Regional Crop Consultants. During this time, you will be learning Multi-Peril, Livestock, Crop Hail, Private Products, and the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage product. You will get to job shadow Ag Marketing Underwriters and Agents to witness how different lines of insurance work. You will also meet with the Rain and Hail LLC marketing and claim representatives.
Our internship program holds an 80/10/10 approach, meaning that 80% of your work time will involve performing tasks or working on projects within your hired work area. Another 10% of the time, you will be exposed to learning in other areas within your assigned division to get more corporate experience. Then, the final 10% will be spent in shared experiences across the organization, where you will get to really learn about our culture and work environment. The majority of your work schedule will be out of the office and on the farm with Regional Crop Consultants, Ag Marketing Underwriters, and Agents. When you are in the office, your work time will be spent training and processing crop insurance paperwork in an office. At the end of your internship, you will be asked to present what was learned to the state management team. Upon successful completion of the program, you may have the opportunity to work for the company as an entry level ag employee, be hired as a sales associate for an agent, or move to one of the state offices to pursue a career in insurance.
What It Takes to Join Our Team:
Be a current college student. Preferred ag or business related major.
Farmer and Rancher looking to supplement ag income
Have a genuine interest in a career path in the insurance/agriculture industry.
Strong knowledge of Outlook, Microsoft Word and Excel is required.
Be an effective communicator, have excellent customer service skills, and be team focused.
Be available to work at least 30 hours per week during the time of the internship.
The experience you receive from this internship will set you up for success to get your insurance career started on the right track.
If you're interested in getting your career started on the right track by joining a company that appreciates employees and provides growth & development opportunities, we invite you to apply today. Farm Bureau....where the grass really IS greener!
Work Authorization/Sponsorship: At this time, we are not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future, such as additional or permanent work authorization. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis. We are not able to sponsor now or in the future, or take over sponsorship of, an employment visa or work authorization for this role. For example, we are not considering candidates with OPT status.
