Farmworker Berry Salary
in Idaho, United States

• Performs any combination of following tasks involved in planting, cultivating, and harvesting fruits and nuts, such as cranberries, apples, and pecans, according to instructions from supervisor or farmer: tills soil, plants stock, prunes trees and bushes, and removes suckers and runners from vines and plants, using tools such as shovels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, and shears.
• Sprays plants with prescribed herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides to control diseases and insects.
• Removes blossoms and thins fruit to improve fruit quality.
• Harvests fruit harvest worker, fruit.
• May light smudge pots and torches or start wind machines that heat and circulate air about crop during cold weather to minimize frost damage.
• May lay out irrigation pipes, install sprinklers, and open and adjust water valves and gates to irrigate assigned fields.
• May repair wire fences and farm buildings, using handtools such as hammers and saws.
• May load and unload trucks.
• May guide harvester discharge spout over wooden bins to load fruit on trailer.
• May bag or box harvested fruit.
• May lay harvested fruit on trays in sun to sun-dry fruit.
• May clean, lubricate, and adjust farm machinery, such as weeders and harvesters, using tools such as wrenches and grease guns.
• May clear and burn roots and brush and gather ladders and containers to clean fields.
• May be identified with tasks being performed, such as thinning, smudging, and picking.
• May be designated according to crop grown as farmworker, berry; farmworker, cranberry; or according to work location.

Farmworker Berry Job Prevalence in Idaho, United States

Job family: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Job family population: 282,300

Estimated population of Farmworker Berry jobs: 14,663

Rate of error: 1.8%