Job Description:

• 1) Plants, cultivates, and harvests vegetables, working as crewmember: Dumps seed into hopper of planter towed by tractor.

• 2) Rides on planter and brushes debris from seed spouts that discharge seeds into plowed furrow.

• 3) Plants roots and bulbs, using hoe or trowel.

• 4) Covers plants with sheet or caps of treated cloth or paper to protect plants from weather.

• 5) Weeds and thins blocks of plants, using hoe or spoon-shaped tool.

• 6) Transplants seedlings, using hand transplanter or by placing seedlings in rotating planting wheel while riding on power-drawn transplanter.

• 7) Sets bean poles and strings them with wire or twine.

• 8) Closes and ties leaves over heads of cauliflower and other cabbage and cabbagelike plants.

• 9) Picks, cuts, pulls, or lifts crops to harvest them.

• 10) Ties vegetables in bunches and removes tops from root crops.

• 11) Pitches vine crops into viner, using pitchfork or electric fork and boom, and cleans up spilled vines.

• 12) May participate in irrigation activities.

• 13) May be identified with work assigned, such as blocking, cutting, and stringing, or with crop raised, such as asparagus, beans, and celery.