Interview Farm business podium

Yesterday 13:00 o’clock

Robin de Winter (21) comes from Swifterbant and is now in his fourth year of the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Horticulture and Arable Farming course at Aeres Hogeschool Dronten. He helps a lot at home on their 100-hectare arable farm and is also a member of the partnership. Robin is doing his graduation internship at Boerenbusiness. He is responsible for sailing onions and potatoes.

Robin is enthusiastic about the development he has gone through within his stage. “I was able to develop myself in the social and cultivation areas. In addition, I was able to apply the theory learned in practice. I can use this knowledge in a beautiful way in the future.”

How is your stage going?
“During my internship I am involved in the Crop Tour of Boerbusiness. I talk to them about what they do to make their crops as optimal as possible, how they do that, and the various topics are important here: choosing to be raining , precipitation and the problems that arise with the cultivation. the beginning was still difficult. In my opinion I sometimes became a bit repetitive within my articles, but people liked to read and the reading figures still. That is very nice to see !”

How do you experience the stage?
You speak to growers who have to deal with different species, different cultivation methods and different areas within their agricultural business. All in all, curricula for growers within the entire agricultural sector. I myself was drawn up in Flevoland and then followed my primary, secondary and higher vocational education in Dronten. This internship gave me the opportunity to get to know the agricultural sector throughout the country.”

What did you get the most out of during your internship?
“I got energy from visiting the participants of the Crop Tour. At the start of the I visited a lot of growers and I was allowed to cross the whole country. I know the different ways of approaching the participants especially interesting and very trusted. about their business.”

“I was also able to develop myself well at Boerenbusiness in the social field, in particular through telephone conversations and approaching people. In addition, I pushed myself to delve even more into cultivation, such as the moments of developing disease control. I was able to apply the things I received from home in the internship in a nice way.”

How do you see the future for you?
“My goal is to take over at home, but before that I want to do something else. I don’t know exactly what the goals are going to be yet, but something within the agricultural sector. I want to find something where I can do the work The amount of company hectares at home are not enough for two full-time employees, so I want to do other things in the meantime. We’ll see.”

Have the expectations you had of the stadium been fulfilled?The vacancy stated that the internship will give you more insight into how things are going in the agricultural sector throughout the entire country. These expectations have certainly been fulfilled, I have been in contact with various growers throughout the country. In addition, I have developed myself socially. I definitely recommend an internship at Boerenbusiness for future interns! You will learn to deepen your knowledge of the agricultural sector. going to various arable farmers throughout the Netherlands, then this is a perfect internship!”