Ashtyn Humphreys – Nebraska Corn Board, Lincoln, NE

Intern Updates

January 2024 Update

It’s crazy to think that it has already been five months since I started my internship in August. Through the last five months, I’ve learned and grown so much through many great opportunities. Most of my time has been spent working in the office on projects with Payton and Rachael focused on market development and stewardship, with some opportunities to go out and meet with farmers and producers.

One of the first big projects that I worked on was an electric vehicle vs. higher-blend ethanol study focusing on EV and higher-blend ethanol infrastructure in Nebraska and where some focus can go in the future. While also doing some comparisons of vehicles, costs, and travel times across the state in EV vs Flex Fuel vehicles. Another big project that I have been working on is keeping the market intelligence database up to date and starting to build a quarterly economic update involving the database and other key pieces to send out to keep producers up to date on what is happening in the corn world. Other little projects have been assisting Payton and Rachael in researching some extra information for different projects that they are working on.

Outside of the office, I was able to attend a regenerative ag field day talking about cover crops and new opportunities for farmers. One day during harvest Rachael and I went out to visit Jason Lewis on his farm and experience a day during harvest. As well as going to a research day at UNL to talk about research opportunities.

Overall, it has been a great first half of my internship, and I am looking forward to kicking off a new semester and continuing to learn and grow throughout this experience. One thing I am looking forward to is the opportunity to go to Commodity Classic at the end of February.