Job Profile:      Agriculture Laborer


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.

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Job Information
   
   
34,600 37,380 57,070

Select Tasks
Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest crops. Set up and operate irrigation equipment. Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.
Harvest fruits and vegetables by hand. Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping. Sell and deliver plants and flowers to customers.
Sow grass seed, or plant plugs of grass. Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress. Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
Identify plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers. Regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems. Cut, roll, and stack sod.
Feel plants' leaves and note their coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease. Provide information and advice to the public regarding the selection, purchase, and care of products. Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control systems.
Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs. Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs. Repair farm buildings, fences, and other structures.
Maintain inventory, ordering materials as required. Record information about plants and plant growth. Dig, rake, and screen soil, filling cold frames and hot beds in preparation for planting.
Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops. Inspect plants and bud ties to assess quality. Trap and destroy pests, such as moles, gophers, and mice, using pesticides.
Move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors. Tie and bunch flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees, wrap their roots, and pack them into boxes to fill orders. Load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities.
Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels. Plant, spray, weed, fertilize, water, and prune plants, shrubs, and trees, using gardening tools.





Select Abilities
The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). The ability to see details at a distance. The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
The ability to see under low light conditions. The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.




Tools Used
Adjustable widemouth pliers Air compressors All terrain vehicles ATV
Allen wrenches Anvil pruners Arborist saws
Battery booster cables Battery power testers Bed formers
Bed rollers Bench grafting knives Bow saws
Budding knives Bulb planters Canister gas masks
Carbon dioxide systems Cargo trucks Chain saw sharpeners
Chain saws Claw hammers Combine harvesters
Compass saws Compressed air sprayers Corn pickers
Crop planters Desktop computers Detasselers
Digital calipers Digital levels Disk tillage equipment
Drafting compasses Drip emitters Drop spreaders
Drum rollers Dump trucks Dust masks
Feed conveyors Fertilizer injectors Fertilizer spreaders
Field forklifts Field watering systems Floral snips
Forklifts Fruit budding knives Fruit pruners
Funnels Garden bow rakes Garden cultivators
Garden dusters Garden hand seeders Garden hoes
Garden spades Garden spading forks Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers
Grafting knives Grain trucks Grass shears
Grease guns Greenhouse irrigation systems Greenhouse ventilation systems
Hacksaws Hand drills Hand held sprayers
Hand tallies Hand trucks Handheld calculators
Handtrucks Hanging spring scales Hatchets
Hay balers Hay rakes Haybines
Hedge shears Hoes Hook-and-blade pruners
Hose-end sprayers Houseplant shears Houseplant snips
Humidifiers Humidity systems Hydromulchers
Impulse sprinklers Increment borers Indoor/outdoor thermometers
Knife sharpeners Laptop computers Leaf rakes
Long arm pruners Loppers Mattocks
Measuring rules Measuring tapes Measuring wheels
Microtip snips Mole grips Mulch spreaders
Multipurpose tractors Nail hammers Open end wrenches
Oscillating sprinklers Paint application brushes Paint application sprayers
Pesticide sprayers Phillips head screwdrivers Pick axes
Pickup trucks Pipe trailers Planting augers
Plows Pole pruners Portable battery chargers
Portable electric drills Portable generators Post hole diggers
Power blowers Power drills Power hedge trimmers
Power saws Pressure washers Pruning knives
Pruning saws Pruning shears Pruning sticks
Putty knives Reel mowers Respirators
Root pruning scissors Rose budding knives Rotary mowers
Rotary spreaders Rotary tillers Round point shovels
Rubber mallets Safety goggles Sand spreaders
Screen separators Seed drills Seed dryers
Seed tumblers Sharpening stones Shovels
Siphon proportioners Sledgehammers Slotted screwdrivers
Socket wrench sets Soil augers Soil cultivators
Soil moisture meters Soil pH meters Soil sampling tubes
Soil thermometers Soybean harvesters Spray suits
Square point shovels Stake drivers Staple guns
Step ladders Straight screwdrivers String trimmers
Thorn strippers Threshers Tie tape machines
Tractor-trailers Tractors Transplanters
Transplanting trowels Tree calipers Tree diameter tapes
Tree feeding augers Tree marking guns Tree planting bars
Tree scale sticks Trowels Tube cutters
Utility knives Vertical mowers Wheelbarrows
Wood chisels Wrecking bars

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