Job Description:

• 1) Grows and harvests more than one kind of crop, such as fruit, grain, vegetable, and specialty crop, applying market condition and agricultural knowledge applicable to kinds of crops raised: Determines kinds and quantities of crops to grow according to market conditions, weather, and farm size and location.

• 2) Selects and purchases supplies, such as seeds, fertilizers, and farm machinery, and arranges with buyers for sale of crops.

• 3) Hires and directs activities of farm workers engaged in tilling soil and planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops.

• 4) Performs various duties of farm workers, depending on farm size or season, including setting up and operating farm machinery, such as truck, tractor, disk harrow, and self-propelled harvester.