Farmworker, Field Crop Ii
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Plants, cultivates, and harvests field crops, such as cotton,
hops, and tobacco, wroking as crewmember: Plants seeds or digs
up and transplants seedlings and sets, using handtools such as
hoes and scoops.
Chops out weeds, thins plants to leave sturdier
plants spaced at regular intervals, and hills up soil aronud
plant roots to retain moisture and protect roots from
temperature extremes, using hoe.
Cuts vines from trellis, using
knife, or pulls leaves from satlks to harvest crop. Stacks or
packs crop in containers and loads containers on turcks or
wagons. May propagate plants in covered cold-frame beds and pull
up seedlings to be transplanted.
May set up poles, srting wires
and twine among poles to form trellises, and secure plants and
cloth netting to trellis structure to support growing plants and
provide shade. May cut or pull away tops, leaves, and suckers
from plnats during growing season.
May spray fungicides and
pesticides on platns to destroy diseases and insects, using hand
or engine-powered pump sprayer.
May stack emtpy harvest
containers in field area. May sharpen hoes, usnig portable
grinding wheel and hand file. May be identified with task
performed, such as pole setting, raking, suckering, and picking,
or according to crop as Cotton Farmworker (agriculture); Hops
Farwmorker (agriculture); Tobacco Farmworker (agriculture).
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