General Farmworker Sample Resume

Hugh Hunt
1234 Post Oak Drive
Texas, Arizona 64000
Home: 404-555-5555
Cell: 404-555-5556
Email: Hugh_Hunt@frontfocus.com
  Objective: Seeking to find a General Farm Worker within a competitive environment where I am allowed to use my experience to best serve the needs of the farm and improve its bottom line profitability.   Qualification Summary: Extensive knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques. Excellent knowledge of machinery and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. Very good knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. Performing intense physical activities that require considerable use of arms and legs and moving body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials. Ability to obey and follow instructions.   Education: Agricultural General High School,
Texas, Arizona
Jun 1998- Jun 2002   Work Experience: General Farm Worker,
Al's Barnyard, Texas, Arizona
June 2004? present

Responsibilities included: applying pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer to crops and livestock; planting, maintaining, and harvesting food crops; tending livestock and poultry. Repairing farm buildings and fences. Other duties included: operating milking machines and other dairy processing equipment; supervising seasonal help; irrigating crops; and hauling livestock products to market. Informed farmers or farm managers of crop progress. Loaded agricultural products into trucks, and drove trucks to market or storage facilities. Operated tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest crops. Participated in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.   Farm Worker,
At George's, Texas, Arizona
May 2002 ? May 2004

Responsibilities included: recording information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs, repairing and maintaining farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment, digging and plating seeds, or transplanting seedlings by hand, harvesting fruits and vegetables by hand, identifying plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers. Other duties implied repairing farm buildings, fences, and other structures, setting up and operating irrigation equipment, applying pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers to crops, clearing and maintaining irrigation ditches, directing and monitoring the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.   References: Available upon request