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

  • Greenhouse Manager
  • Irrigation System Operator
  • Sprinkling System Irrigator

  • 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.

  • Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress.
  • Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control systems.
  • Provide information and advice to the public regarding the selection, purchase, and care of products.
  • Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
  • Record information about plants and plant growth.
  • Regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems.

  • Confer with managers to make operational decisions.
  • Operate irrigation systems.
  • Perform manual agricultural, aquacultural, or horticultural tasks.