A professional who performs any combination of following duties to feed or off bear farm machines used to plant, harvest, and clean crops. Respnsibilities include:

• Loads containers of rooted cuttings, plants, seedlings, or bulbs on planting machine and pulls levers to start planting and watering mechanisms.
• Walks beside or rides on machine while inserting plants in planter-mechanism clamp, pocket, or tube at specified intervals.
• Dumps, pitches, scoops, or shovels materials and products, such as bulbs, onions, and nuts into feed hopper.
• Guides plants onto feed conveyor.
• Picks up spilled products and places them on feed mechanism.
• Notifies designated coworker when machine malfunctions are observed.
• Stacks empty boxes in conveyor discharge rack or hangs bags on hooks under discharge chute, and flips baffle lever that channels discharge flow to catch products.
• Closes ends of filled sacks, using tie wires.
• Loads sacks or boxes onto truck or trailer, or guides discharge spout over truck, trailer, or silo.
• Cleans machinery, such as planting or digging mechanism and chain conveyor.
• Lubricates, adjusts, and replaces machinery parts, using handtools.