A professional who plants, cultivates, and harvests vegetables, working as crewmember. Respnsibilities include:

• Dumps seed into hopper of planter towed by tractor.
• Rides on planter and brushes debris from seed spouts that discharge seeds into plowed furrow.
• Plants roots and bulbs, using hoe or trowel.
• Covers plants with sheet or caps of treated cloth or paper to protect plants from weather.
• Weeds and thins blocks of plants, using hoe or spoon-shaped tool.
• Transplants seedlings, using hand transplanter or by placing seedlings in rotating planting wheel while riding on power-drawn transplanter.
• Sets bean poles and strings them with wire or twine.
• Closes and ties leaves over heads of cauliflower and other cabbage and cabbagelike plants.
• Picks, cuts, pulls, or lifts crops to harvest them.
• Ties vegetables in bunches and removes tops from root crops.
• Pitches vine crops into viner (pea or bean shelling machine), using pitchfork or electric fork and boom, and cleans up spilled vines.
• May participate in irrigation activities.
• May be identified with work assigned, such as blocking, cutting, and stringing, or with crop raised, such as asparagus, beans, and celery.