A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cultivating, pruning, spraying, thinning, propping, and harvesting tree crops, such as apples, lemons, oranges, peaches, and pecans. Respnsibilities include:

• Assigns trees, rows, or blocks of trees to workers.
• Directs workers in spacing, thinning, irrigating, fertilizing, spraying, and pruning trees and in harvesting fruit.
• Issues ladders, pruning tools, and picking bags or buckets to workers.
• Inspects harvested fruit for bruises, maturity, and improper harvesting defects.
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
• May dig up soil samples from various locations in grove to send to laboratory for analysis, using auger or shovel.
• May examine trees for blight and insect infestation and record degree of damage and location of affected trees.
• May requisition and purchase farm supplies, such as insecticides and machinery lubricants.
• May hire and discharge workers.
• May prepare daily tally sheets of worker hours and production.