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SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMING

Specialty Definition: SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMING

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Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing fields and planting, cultivating, and harvesting crop specialties, such as cotton, mint, tobacco, and hops: Confers with manager to evaluate soil and weather conditions and to develop plans and procedures. Inspects fields and observes growing plants and harvested crop to determine work requirements, such as cultivating, spraying, thinning, weeding, irrigating, harvesting, and drying, according to time of year and condition of soil, plants, and crops. Determines number and kind of workers needed to perform required work and schedules activities. Inspects work performed, observes instrument and gauge readings, ascertains condition of crop, and performs related duties to verify worker adherence to instructions. Performs other duties as described under SUPERVISOR (any industry) Master Title. May hire workers. May train workers in work procedures, safety policies, and use of machinery and tools. May oversee packaging and transporting of harvested crop. May drive and operate farm machinery, such as tractor, baler, and self-propelled harvester. May examine machinery to ascertain maintenance, repair, and replacement requirements, and supervise workers engaged in machinery-maintenance activities. May issue tools to workers. May be designated Driver (agriculture) when supervising cotton workers. May be identified with crop grown. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 55 50 45 52 56 49 53 4F 52 2C      46 49 45 4C 44 2D 43 52 4F 50      46 41 52 4D 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010101 01010000 01000101 01010010 01010110 01001001 01010011 01001111 01010010 00101100 00100000 01000110 01001001 01000101 01001100 01000100 00101101 01000011 01010010 01001111 01010000 00100000 01000110 01000001 01010010 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#85 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#86 &#73 &#83 &#79 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#70 &#73 &#69 &#76 &#68 &#45 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#32 &#70 &#65 &#82 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0055 0050 0045 0052 0056 0049 0053 004F 0052 002C      0046 0049 0045 004C 0044 002D 0043 0052 004F 0050      0046 0041 0052 004D 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5355503952564353495214240433946381537524950240355247434841

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