A professional who provides harvest crews for farmers and directs, coordinates, and oversees crew activities, such as field hauling and threshing. Respnsibilities include:

• Contacts crop growers to ascertain time and method of harvesting.
• Inspects crops and fields to estimate acreage yield and determine loading requirements, land contours, road accessibility, and distances to storage or processing area.
• Prepares and submits bids to farmer to obtain harvest contract.
• Recruits, hires and orients crewmembers.
• Assigns workers to tasks involved in harvesting, loading, moving, and storing crops.
• Prepares and submits bids to farmers to provide work crews for farming activities, such as planting, pruning, and thinning fruit trees, setting posts, and weeding field crops.
• May supply, tend, adjust, and repair trucks and farm machines.
• May transport or arrange for transportation of workers.
• May be required to be licensed by state and federal authorities.
• May prepare production records and crew payroll.
• May be identified with crew activity as Contractor, Broomcorn Threshing; Contractor, Field Hauling.