The Department of Agriculture is responsible for fostering sound stewardship of 75% of the nation’s total land area, and plays a critical role in managing America’s natural resources. The USDA also works to improve and maintain farm income and to develop and expand markets abroad for agricultural products.  An internship with the USDA could involve: accounting, business administration, library science, computer science, communications, rural economic and social development, consumer issues, physical science, food sciences, statistics, or environmental science

Here is a list of the various offices within the Department of Agriculture where students have interned:

• Agricultural Marketing Service
• Agriculture Research Service
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services
• Cooperative State Research Ed. and Economic Services
• Economic Research Service
• Farm Service Agency
• Food, Land and People
• Food and Nutrition Service
• Food Safety Inspection Service
• Foreign Agriculture Service
• Forest Service
• Grain Inspections Packers and Stockyards Administration
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Natural Risk
• Office of Civil Rights
• Office of the General Counsel
• Office of the Secretary
• Risk Management Agency
• Rural Development

Web Site: http://www.usda.gov/

Internship Story View what previous interns had to say about their internship. Damaris De Jesus   (August 6, 2007) Enrique Quevedo   (August 3, 2007) Jorge Lupercio   (August 2, 2007) Sylmar Santos Corujo   (July 27, 2005)

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