Regional Agronomist

Location: Based in Arizona, with regular travel to California and other PGH farming locations

Reports To: President & COO

Employment Status: Full-time, exempt, permanent

Travel: Approximately 50%, depending on the growing season

Company Background

Plant Grow Harvest is a vertically integrated potato company operating across multiple U.S. regions. PGH manages farming, packing, supply chain, brokerage, and consulting services while building a disciplined, data-informed system for consistently producing high-quality potatoes as the company expands.

Role Description

The Regional Agronomist protects and improves potato crop performance across PGH-owned and partner farms. The role develops agronomic plans, interprets field and scientific data, and provides practical recommendations related to soil, seed, fertility, irrigation, crop protection, plant health, and harvest readiness. It is a hands-on position requiring deep potato expertise, strong judgment, adaptability, documentation, teaching, and cross-functional leadership.

Tasks and Accountabilities

• Comprehensive Crop Planning: Develop season-long agronomic plans that integrate variety, soil, fertility, irrigation, crop protection, harvest readiness, operational capacity, and expected economic return.
• Crop and Soil Monitoring: Inspect fields regularly, evaluate crop and soil conditions, identify emerging risks, and provide clear weekly recommendations to farming leadership.
• Agronomic Data Collection: Create and maintain standardized procedures for sampling, scouting, test digs, yield estimates, and harvest evaluations, while ensuring field data is collected accurately and consistently.
• Soil Health and Crop Rotation: Design rotation and soil-management strategies that improve long-term productivity, reduce pest and disease pressure, and protect the economic value of farmland.
• Fertility and Crop-Protection Strategy: Develop nutrient and crop-protection recommendations and support purchasing decisions for fertilizers, crop-protection products, and soil amendments.
• Integrated Pest and Disease Management: Monitor biological risks and implement practical, timely strategies that balance crop health, resistance management, compliance, environmental stewardship, and return on investment.
• Irrigation and Soil-Moisture Management: Develop and oversee irrigation strategies that reduce crop stress, improve water-use efficiency, and protect tuber quality.
• Tillage and Field Preparation: Create field-specific tillage and soil-preparation plans and adjust execution based on field conditions, equipment capability, and crop needs.
• Records, Analysis, and Continuous Improvement: Maintain accurate agronomic records, analyze results across locations and seasons, capture lessons learned, and establish repeatable PGH standards.
• Cross-Functional Partnership and Teaching: Collaborate across farming and business functions, translate technical information into practical direction, and build agronomic knowledge throughout the organization.
• Partner and Customer Agronomy Support: Provide professional agronomic guidance to selected growers and customers while protecting confidential information and maintaining strong working relationships.
• Financial Stewardship: Support crop-input budgets and evaluate agronomic decisions based on yield, quality, cost, risk, asset productivity, soil health, and overall farm return.

Core Competencies

• Potato Agronomy and Crop-Health Expertise: Apply deep potato-specific knowledge to evaluate crop and soil conditions, diagnose risks, and improve plant health, yield, quality, and economic performance across different fields and growing environments.
• Agronomic Planning and Adaptive Execution: Develop comprehensive seasonal crop plans while adjusting quickly and responsibly to changing weather, field conditions, labor, equipment, and operational priorities.
• Data Analysis and Agronomic Judgment: Interpret field observations, sampling results, crop data, and economic considerations to identify patterns, determine likely causes, evaluate risk, and make practical evidence-based recommendations.
• Process Discipline and Knowledge Management: Create clear SOPs, records, and…