First-Line Supervisors of Agricultural Crop & Horticultural Workers
Also called:
Farm Manager, Grower, Farm Owner Operator, Field Operations Farm Manager
What they do:
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of agricultural crop or horticultural workers.
On the job, you would:
- Inspect crops, fields, or plant stock to determine conditions and need for cultivating, spraying, weeding, or harvesting.
- Assign duties, such as cultivation, irrigation, or harvesting of crops or plants, product packaging or grading, or equipment maintenance.
- Observe workers to detect inefficient or unsafe work procedures or to identify problems, initiating corrective action as necessary.
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
Arts and Humanities
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Resource Management
- selecting and managing the best workers for a job
- managing your time and the time of other people
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Visual Understanding
- see hidden patterns
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Attention
- do two or more things at the same time
- pay attention to something without being distracted
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
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People interested in this work like activities that include
practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Independence
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Stress Tolerance
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You might use software like this on the job:
Spreadsheet software
Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
Word processing software
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high school diploma or
some high school
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are less likely in the future.
$42,600
per year, on average
This work is part of the .
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