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field-crop farming supervisor
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing fields and planting, cultivating, and harvesting crop specialties, such as cotton, mint, tobacco, and hops. Respnsibilities include:
- Confers with manager to evaluate soil and weather conditions and to develop plans and procedures.
- Inspects fields and observes growing plants and harvested crop to determine work requirements, such as cultivating, spraying, thinning, weeding, irrigating, harvesting, and drying, according to time of year and condition of soil, plants, and crops.
- Determines number and kind of workers needed to perform required work and schedules activities.
- Inspects work performed, observes instrument and gauge readings, ascertains condition of crop, and performs related duties to verify worker adherence to instructions.
- Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
- May hire workers.
- May train workers in work procedures, safety policies, and use of machinery and tools.
- May oversee packaging and transporting of harvested crop.
- May drive and operate farm machinery, such as tractor, baler, and self-propelled harvester.
- May examine machinery to ascertain maintenance, repair, and replacement requirements, and supervise workers engaged in machinery-maintenance activities.
- May issue tools to workers.
- May be designated Driver when supervising cotton workers.
- May be identified with crop grown.
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