Job description: This position will perform all aspects of research and development in small grain, soybean, and specialty crops breeding, variety testing, and agronomic research at Eastern Virginia Agricultural Research & Extension Center (AREC). The individual will serve as a liaison between the AREC and campus-based faculty and will lead in the visual field inspection of varietal lines for potential release, with emphasis on advancing segregation populations and progeny rows, and purifying the line before it is increased; which will include observation, notation, selection and removal of off-types in breeder seed, and collection of PVP data on selected lines. The individual in the position will also set up research tests, oversee data management, perform stati