NorthStar

Occupations/45-2092.00

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

High school

Usually a high school diploma, plus some experience or short training.

AI automation risk

37%

More resilient

Human characteristics

35%

Fewer uniquely human demands

Task orientation

42%

Mixed exposure

A day in this job

  • Mostly routine

    Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.

  • Mostly routine

    Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.

  • Mostly routine

    Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.

The tasks we can read here lean routine. That sits next to the AI risk rank — it is not a forecast that the job disappears.

Core tasks

  1. 01Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
  2. 02Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
  3. 03Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
  4. 04Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.
  5. 05Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.
  6. 06Harvest fruits and vegetables by hand.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

  • Repeating same tasks2.23
  • Degree of automation1.87
  • Time sitting1.59
  • Originality (ability)2.62
  • Conflict situations1.84
  • Hands-on objects/tools3.85
  • Outdoors / weather4.45
  • Disease exposure1.29
  • Decision freedom3.04

Top abilities

  • Trunk Strength4.00
  • Control Precision3.88
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness3.88
  • Multilimb Coordination3.75
  • Manual Dexterity3.75
  • Extent Flexibility3.75
  • Static Strength3.62
  • Finger Dexterity3.62

Essential skills

  • Reading Comprehension2.75
  • Active Listening2.88
  • Writing2.75
  • Speaking3.00
  • Mathematics2.12
  • Science1.25
  • Critical Thinking2.75
  • Active Learning2.62
  • Learning Strategies2.50
  • Monitoring2.75

CIP matches

99.9999NO MATCH

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