Farmworker, Fruit Ii
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Performs any combination of following tasks involved in
planting, cultivating, and harvesting fruits and nuts, such as
cranberries, apples, and pecans, according to instructions from
supervisor or farmer: Tills soil, plants stock, prunes trees and
bushes, and removes suckers and runners from vines and plants,
using tools such as shovels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, and
shears. Sprays platns with prescribed herbicides, fungicides,
and pesticides to control diseases and insects. Removes blossoms
and thins friut to improve fruit quality. Hravests fruit
[Harvest Worker, Fruit (agriculture) 403.687-018]. May light
smudge pots and torches or start wind machines that heat and
circulate air about crop during cold weather to minimize frost
damgae.
May lay out irrigation pipes, install sprinklers, and
open and adjust wtaer valves and gates to irrigate assigned
fields.
May repair wire fecnes and farm buildings, using
handtools such as hammers and saws. May load and unload trucks.
May guide harvester discharge soput over wooden bins to load
fruit on trailer. May bag or box harvested furit. May lay
harvested fruit on trays in sun to sun-dry fruit. May clean,
lubricate, and adujst farm machinery, such as weeders and
harvesters, using tools such as wrenches and grease guns.
May
clear and burn roots and brush and gather ladders and containers
to clean fields. May be identified with tsaks being performed,
such as thinning, smudging, and picking. May be designated
according to crop grown as Farmworker, Berry (agriculture);
Farmworker, Cranberry (agriculture); or according to work
location as Laborer, Orchard (agriculture); Laborer, Vineyard
(agriculture).
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Farmworker, Fruit II
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