Skills Vegetable Farm Worker near Lethbridge (AB)

Find out what skills you typically need to work as a vegetable farm worker in Canada. These skills are applicable to all General farm workers (NOC 85101).

Tasks

  • Boar semen collection
  • Brush collecting
  • Budding trees
  • Calving
  • Cattle exhibition
  • Cattle training
  • Christmas tree shearing
  • Cleaning crop
  • Clipping
  • Deleafing
  • Farm animal grooming
  • Feed inventory
  • Fruit trees training
  • Grading
  • Greenhouse cleaning
  • Hand harvesting vegetables
  • Handling animals
  • Harvesting seedlings
  • Hoeing crops
  • Livestock branding
  • Lowering
  • Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
  • Milking goats
  • Mixing fertilizer
  • Monitoring animal health
  • Permaculture
  • Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
  • Processing pig litters
  • Reining
  • Seed cutting
  • Shearing with knife
  • Shoot positioning
  • Show horse preparation
  • Soil fertility programs
  • Stone and/or wood picking
  • Suckering
  • Tying
  • Vegetable culling
  • Vertical farming system
  • Weaning
  • Weeding
  • Fertilize and spray crops
  • Harvest crops
  • Feed and tend animals
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Milk cows
  • Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
  • Apiary work
  • Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
  • Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
  • Write daily basic progress reports
  • Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops

Skills and Knowledge Checklist

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Skills

Analysis Help - Analysis
  • Examining and Diagnosing
  • Inspecting and Testing
Service and Care Help - Service and Care
  • Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping
Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles Help - Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles
  • Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing
  • Operating Mobile Equipment
  • Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment
Information Handling Help - Information Handling
  • Processing Information
Handling Goods and Materials Help - Handling Goods and Materials
  • Sorting
  • Loading and Unloading

Knowledge

Mathematics and Science Help - Mathematics and Science
  • Biology
Manufacturing and Production Help - Manufacturing and Production
  • Food Production and Agriculture
Engineering and Technology Help - Engineering and Technology
  • Mechanics and Machinery
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