Farmers and Ranchers

On an ownership or rental basis, operate farms, ranches, greenhouses, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural production establishments which produce crops, horticultural specialties, livestock, poultry, finfish, shellfish, or animal specialties. May plant, cultivate, harvest, perform post-harvest activities, and market crops and livestock; may hire, train, and supervise farm workers or supervise a farm labor contractor; may prepare cost, production, and other records. May maintain and operate machinery and perform physical work.

Job Task

• Harvests crops and collects specialty products, such as royal jelly from queen bee cells and honey from honeycombs.
• Sets up and operates farm machinery to till soil, plant, prune, fertilize, apply herbicides and pesticides, and haul harvested crops.
• Inspects growing environment to maintain optimum growing or breeding conditions.
• Plans harvesting considering ripeness and maturity of crop and weather conditions.
• Breeds and raises stock, such as animals, poultry, honeybees, or earthworms.
• Arranges with buyers for sale and shipment of crops.
• Hires and directs workers engaged in planting, cultivating, irrigating, harvesting, and marketing crops and raising livestock.
• Assembles, positions, and secures structures, such as trellises or beehives, using hand tools.
• Lubricates, adjusts, and makes minor repairs on farm equipment, using oilcan, grease gun, and hand tools.
• Maintains employee and financial records.
• Grades and packages crop for marketing.
• Demonstrates and explains farm work techniques and safety regulations to workers.
• Installs irrigation systems and irrigates fields.
• Grows out of season crops in greenhouse or early crops in cold-frame bed, or buds and grafts plant stock.
• Selects and purchases supplies and equipment, such as seed, tree stock, fertilizers, farm machinery, implements, livestock, and feed.
• Destroys diseased or superfluous crops, such as queen bee cells, bee colonies, parasites, and vermin.
• Determines kind and quantity of crops or livestock to be raised, according to market conditions, weather, and farm size.

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