Direct and coordinate, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in agricultural crop production for corporations, cooperatives, or other owners.

Other names for Crop and Livestock Managers: Accredited Farm Manager (AFM), Agriculture Manager, Agriculture Services Vice President, Beet Raiser, Cash Grain Grower, Corn Grower, Cotton Farmer, Cotton Grower, Cropper, Dryland Farmer, Farm Management Firm President, Farm Manager, Field Manager, Fruit Farmer, Fruit Grower, Fruit or Nut Crops Farm Manager, Fruit or Nut Farmer, Fruit Raiser, Fruit Rancher, Gardener, General Farm Manager, Grain Farmer, Herb Grower, Muck Farmer, Orchard Manager, Orchardist, Pineapple Plantation Manager, Production Superintendent, Seed Corn Production Manager, Seed Grower, Sugar Cane Planter, Sugar Plantation Manager, Tobacco Grower, Vineyardist, Viticulturist,

• Record information such as production figures, farm management practices, and parent stock data, and prepare financial and operational reports.
• Confer with buyers to arrange for the sale of crops.
• Contract with farmers or independent owners for raising of crops, or for management of crop production.
• Evaluate financial statements, and make budget proposals.
• Analyze soil to determine types and quantities of fertilizer required for maximum production.
• Purchase machinery, equipment, and supplies such as tractors, seed, fertilizer, and chemicals.
• Analyze market conditions to determine acreage allocations.
• Direct and coordinate worker activities such as planting, irrigation, chemical application, harvesting, and grading.
• Inspect orchards and fields to determine maturity dates of crops, or to estimate potential crop damage from weather.
• Hire, discharge, transfer, and promote workers.
• Enforce applicable safety regulations.
• Plan and direct development and production of hybrid plant varieties with high yields or with disease or insect resistance.
• Inspect equipment to ensure proper functioning.
• Negotiate with bank officials to obtain credit.
• Determine procedural changes in drying, grading, storage, and shipment processes in order to provide greater efficiency and accuracy.
• Coordinate growing activities with activities of related departments such as engineering, equipment maintenance, and packing.

• Adding machines
• All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Blood collection syringes
• Elevating scrapers
• Livestock identification equipment
• Incubators or brooders for poultry
• Mowers
• Calculators or accessories
• Veterinary castration instruments
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Power saws
• Hammers
• Combine harvesters
• Planters
• Desktop computers
• Fertilizer spreaders or distributors
• Dump trucks
• Livestock identification equipment
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Agricultural tractors
• Lawnmowers
• Forklifts
• Global positioning system receivers
• Harvesters
• Cargo trucks
• Harvesters
• Haymaking machinery
• Haymaking machinery
• Veterinary nail trimmers or cutters
• Incubators or brooders for poultry
• Irrigation pumps
• Irrigation pipes or tubes
• Notebook computers
• Animal shearing or clipping equipment
• Fertilizer spreaders or distributors
• Milking machines
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Sprayers
• Post hole digger
• Power drills
• Radio frequency identification devices
• Lawnmowers
• Cultivators
• Screwdrivers
• Skid steer loaders
• Snowmobiles or snow scooter
• Snowplow attachments
• Cultivators
• Veterinary injection or suction units or accessories
• Sprayers
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Front end loaders

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