Will use appropriate tools such as shovels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks and shears. Will repair, paint, sanitize, marking of bins, picking buckets & ladders. Other duties may include laying out irrigation pipe and installing sprinklers, assisting in repairing fences, loading and unloading trucks, clearing fields, burning brush, hand thinning fruit and smudging. May also perform any combination of tasks involved in planting, cultivating, and harvesting of crops such as tilling soil, planting stock, pruning, removing suckers and runners from trees, vines, and plants.
Fruit picked as drops is never mixed with tree fruit. Workers will be directed to strip all fruit from tree at one picking or to spot pick (selective picking) according to size and color depending on crop conditions and state of maturity. Each worker's picked fruit will be inspected according to instructions given each day by the orchard foreman. Fruit injured by bruising during picking shall not exceed 4% as defined in the U.S. All fruit to be handled with care to avoid causing bruising. Worker places ladder firmly against or within tree in a secure position so as not to break limbs or knock off fruit and to prevent slipping or falling. Fruit injured by bruising, not to exceed 4%. All fruit to be handled with care to avoid bruising. A minimum productivity standard applies 70 bu boxes of fresh market apples per day. Pick apples for fresh marketing and/or processing. Record information about crops, such as pesticides use, yields or costs. Identify plants, pests, & weeds to determine the selection & application of pesticides & fertilizers. Inform farmers or farm manager of crop progress. Will repair, paint, sanitize, and mark bins, picking baskets and ladders. Repair & maintain farm vehicles, implements & mechanical equipment. Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow & fertilize soil or to plant, cultivate, spray & haul harvest crops. Construct trellises, repair fences & farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. Duties include tilling soil & applying fertilizers, herbicides & pesticides transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, & knives. Job Duties: Manually prune, cultivate, & harvest apples.
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