What do they do?
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.
Also known as:
Farm Hand, Farm Laborer, Farmer, Field Irrigation Worker, Field Worker, Fruit Harvester, Gardener, Greenhouse Worker, Grower, Harvester, Irrigator, Nursery Worker, Orchard Worker, Picker, Propagation Worker, Tractor Driver
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- Less than high school diploma (49%)
- High school diploma equivalent (28%)
- Some college, no degree (11%)
- Bachelor's degree (6%)
- Associate's degree (4%)
- Master's degree (1%)
- Doctorate or Professional Degree (<1%)
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Degrees Granted
638
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Female Students
306
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Male Students
332
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Median Starting Salary
$37,600
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220
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103
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117
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$37,600
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164
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151
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$37,600
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83
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79
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Median Starting Salary
$38,200
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Degrees Granted
42
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25
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17
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$37,600
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People in this career often have talent in:
- Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Multilimb Coordination - The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Extent Flexibility - The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Rate Control - The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Dynamic Strength - The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Stamina - The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Explosive Strength - The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
People in this career often do these activities:
- Transport animals, crops, or equipment.
- Sell agricultural products.
- Maintain operational records.
- Direct activities of agricultural, forestry, or fishery employees.
- Plant crops, trees, or other plants.
- Sort forestry or agricultural materials.
- Mark agricultural or forestry products for identification.
- Harvest agricultural products.
- Operate irrigation systems.
- Package agricultural products for shipment or further processing.
- Evaluate quality of plants or crops.
- Maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment.
- Advise others on farming or forestry operations, regulations, or equipment.
- Build agricultural structures.
- Confer with managers to make operational decisions.
- Cut trees or logs.
- Examine characteristics or behavior of living organisms.
- Operate farming equipment.
- Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
- Prepare land for agricultural use.
- Load agricultural or forestry products for shipment.
- Capture or kill animals.
- Clean equipment or facilities.
This page includes data from:
Career data: O*NET 28.3 Database
by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (“USDOL/ETA”). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA
Occupation statistics: USDOL U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics
Videos: CareerOneStop, USDOL/ETA and the Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development
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