Horticultural Specialty Grower Salary
in Boston, Massachusetts

• Propagates and raises horticultural-specialty products and crops, such as seeds, bulbs, rootstocks, sod, ornamental plants, and cut flowers.
• Prepares acreage utilization and work schedules, according to knowledge of crop culture, climate and market conditions, seed, bulb, or rootstock availability, and employable work force and machinery.
• Attaches farm implements, such as disc and fertilizer spreader, to tractor and drives tractor in fields to till soil and plant and cultivate crop.
• Inspects fields periodically to ascertain nutrient deficiencies, detect insect, disease, and pest infestations, and identify foreign-plant growth, and selects, purchases, and schedules materials, such as fertilizers and herbicides, to ensure quality control.
• Hires field workers; assigns their duties according to scheduled activities, such as planting, irrigating, weeding, and harvesting; and oversees their activities.
• Maintains personnel and production records.
• Arranges with customers for sale of crop.

Horticultural Specialty Grower Job Prevalence in Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Job family: Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Job family population: 4,770

Estimated population of Horticultural Specialty Grower jobs: 22

Rate of error: 5.4%