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Description
Directly supervise and coordinate agricultural and forestry crews, overseeing crop, livestock, and timber operations to meet production, quality, environmental, and safety standards.
Job tasks Attributes
  • • Assign tasks for feeding, treating, and handling livestock and cleaning animal quarters.
  • • Record crop yields, livestock counts, and timber volumes harvested, sold, and shipped.
  • • Monitor workers to ensure compliance with safety regulations; coach or discipline as needed.
  • • Observe animals for illness, injury, or unusual behavior and notify veterinarians or managers.
  • • Inspect timber stands for pests, disease, growth, quality, and harvest readiness.
  • • Train workers in tree felling, bucking, tractor or loader operation, yarding/loading techniques, and safety.
  • • Treat animal illnesses or injuries per experience or veterinary instruction.
  • • Train workers in planting, cultivating, harvesting, and equipment operation.
  • • Train workers in weeding, pest identification, and safe work practices.
  • • Confer with managers on weather, soil, fertilizer, herbicide, and cultivation plans or procedures.
  • • Coordinate with forestry personnel on harvest plans, silviculture practices, procedures, and schedules.
  • • Inspect crops, fields, or nursery stock to determine needs for cultivating, spraying, weeding, or harvesting.
  • • Coordinate dismantling, moving, and setup of equipment at new work sites.
  • • Direct selection and movement of logs from storage areas per transport schedules or production needs.
  • • Schedule crews, equipment, and transportation across multiple work locations.
  • • Operate or oversee operation of farm and forestry machinery to move workers or supplies or to cultivate or harvest.
  • • Perform supervisory and administrative functions, including accounting, marketing, and personnel tasks.
  • • Arrange transport of animals, equipment, seed, feed, seedlings, and other supplies to and from sites.
  • • Inspect buildings, fences, fields, ranges, supplies, and equipment to determine needed work.
  • • Review inventories, customer orders, or shipping schedules to plan activities.
  • • Inspect facilities and yards to determine maintenance and repair needs.
  • • Confer with managers to set production targets, assess equipment and supplies, and finalize work schedules.
  • • Prepare and maintain timekeeping, payroll, and personnel records, including evaluations and disciplinary actions.
  • • Requisition or purchase supplies such as pesticides, machine parts, lubricants, and tools.
  • • Oversee construction or installation projects, such as barns, greenhouses, roads, or irrigation systems.
  • • Issue tools and equipment to workers and collect them when work is complete.
  • • Develop or monitor budgets for fields, ranges, forests, and infrastructure maintenance or improvements.
  • • Direct or assist with adjustment, maintenance, and repair of equipment or machinery.
  • • Monitor operations to solve problems, improve methods, and ensure compliance with safety and regulations.
  • • Plan daily and seasonal work schedules based on personnel and equipment availability.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
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