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field crop harvest worker

A professional who harvests field crops, such as broomcorn, cotton, hops, peanuts, sugarcane, and tobacco, working as crewmember. Respnsibilities include:

  • Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop.
  • Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle.
  • Collects crop into containers, such as bags, boxes, and bundles, or piles and stacks crop in windrows.
  • Picks up and carries bundles, bales, containers, or stacks of harvested crop to collection point, and loads crop onto truck or wagon, by hand or using hoist or hooks.
  • May tie leaves, stalks, straws, or vines into bundles, using twine, clamps, or rubber bands.
  • May shake dirt from vines and stack vines or straw around stakes or stalks, by hand or using pitchfork, to protect crop from weathering on damp soil.
  • May gather up and load scattered leaves, vines, or pods on truck.
  • May burn debris, leaves, and stalks.
  • May be identified with duties performed, such as cutting, picking, carrying, and loading; or with crop worked, such as alfalfa, mint, and sugar beets.
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  • Jason F
  • (United States of America)

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