Overview
Crop Farm Workers perform routine tasks in producing crops such as fruit, nuts, grains and vegetables.
Tasks
This occupation may include associated occupations with varying tasks.
- planting trees, seeds, seedlings, roots, bulbs, vines and other plants using hand tools and farm machines
- building trellises for climbing vegetables and vines
- operating farm machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest fruit, nuts, grains and vegetables
- spraying trees, vines and other plants with chemicals to control weed growth, insects, fungus growth and diseases
- thinning, weeding and hoeing row crops, and pruning trees and vines
- irrigating land for crop growth
- selecting and picking fruit, nuts, grains and vegetables according to size and ripeness, and discarding rotting and over-ripened produce
- grading, sorting, bunching and packing produce into containers
- loading filled fruit, nut, grain and vegetable containers onto trucks
Job Titles
- Fruit or Nut Farm Worker
- Fruit or Nut Picker
- Grain, Oilseed or Pasture Farm Worker
- Vegetable Farm Worker
- Vegetable Picker
- Vineyard Worker
- Crop Farm Workers