How do they match: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

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.

Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping.
Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress.
Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest crops.
Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
Repair farm buildings, fences, and other structures.
Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.

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