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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Farmworkers

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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.

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse · O*NET 45-2092.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

7 of 10tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

15 matched to the tools farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse use. Showing 15.

The tools this job actually uses

10 documented for this occupation. Showing 10, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • BCL Landview Systems WinCrop
  • Farm Works Software Trac
  • Global positioning system GPS software
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Web browser software

What this job involves

27 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Sell and deliver plants and flowers to customers.
  2. Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
  3. Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
  4. Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
  5. Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.
  6. Regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems.
  7. Feel plants' leaves and note their coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease.
  8. Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.
  9. Provide information and advice to the public regarding the selection, purchase, and care of products.
  10. Harvest fruits and vegetables by hand.
  11. Set up and operate irrigation equipment.
  12. Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control systems.
  13. Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress.
  14. Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs.
  15. Identify plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers.
  16. Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest crops.
  17. Record information about plants and plant growth.
  18. Maintain inventory, ordering materials as required.
  19. Dig, rake, and screen soil, filling cold frames and hot beds in preparation for planting.
  20. Load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities.
  21. Inspect plants and bud ties to assess quality.
  22. Move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors.
  23. Tie and bunch flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees, wrap their roots, and pack them into boxes to fill orders.
  24. Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping.
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