Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

What Does a Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse Do?

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
• 2Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
• 3Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
• 4Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.
• 5Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.
• 6Harvest fruits and vegetables by hand.
• 7Set up and operate irrigation equipment.
• 8Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress.

Required Skills

• BCL Landview Systems WinCrop
• Farm Works Software Trac
• Global positioning system GPS software
• IBM Lotus Notes
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word
• Web browser software

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse Salary