Agricultural Worker Resume Template
A finished one-page agricultural worker resume with the duties, tools and credentials employers look for. Download it as Word or PDF, print it, or change every line in the builder.
John Howard
Lead Agricultural Worker · Diversified Produce & Hay
Nashville, TN
(615) 555-3961
john.howard@email.com
linkedin.com/in/johnhoward
Profile
Agricultural worker with 9 years on Middle Tennessee produce, hay and cattle operations, covering 450 acres year-round. Lead seasonal crews of 8–12 and helped raise marketable tomato yield 15% with better staking, spraying and grading.
Farm Experience
Lead Agricultural Worker
2020 – Present
Harpeth Bend Farm, Franklin, TN
- Lead 8–12 seasonal workers planting, staking and harvesting tomatoes, peppers and pumpkins.
- Mix and apply fungicides and insecticides with a boom sprayer and log every application.
- Helped raise marketable tomato yield 15% through tighter staking, spray timing and grading.
- Cut, rake and bale 1,800 round bales of hay a year on 250 acres with John Deere equipment.
- Grade, wash and pack produce for 3 farmers markets and a CSA of 180 members each week.
Agricultural Worker
2017 – 2020
Harpeth Bend Farm, Franklin, TN
- Fed and checked 80 beef cows and moved cattle to scales, pens and rotational paddocks.
- Laid plastic mulch and drip tape and set transplants with a water-wheel planter.
- Loaded pallets and bins with a forklift and stacked hay in barns for winter feeding.
- Recorded yields, spray dates and labor hours in the farm log for the owner.
Farm Laborer
2015 – 2017
Stones River Nursery, Murfreesboro, TN
- Potted, spaced and pruned container shrubs and trees in a 30-acre wholesale nursery.
Agricultural Skills
Vegetable production
Hay cutting & baling
Beef cattle care
Crew coordination
Pesticide mixing & spraying
Produce grading & packing
Drip irrigation
Equipment
John Deere 5100E tractorVermeer 504R round balerFimco boom sprayerWater-wheel transplanterToyota forklift
Certifications
Private Pesticide Applicator Certification
Tennessee Department of Agriculture
Forklift Operator Certification
Employer (OSHA 29 CFR 1910.178)
Education
High School Diploma
2014
Franklin High School, Franklin, TN
Names, employers and dates on the sample are invented. Duties and software come from O*NET 31.0; credentials were checked against the sources listed below.
Skills to list
- Crop and Livestock Care
- Equipment Operation
- Manual Labor Techniques
- Irrigation Systems
- Harvesting
- Sorting and Packing
- Safety Procedures
- Inventory Tracking
Software and tools
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- BCL Landview Systems WinCrop
- Farm Works Software Trac
- Valley Agricultural Software DairyCOMP 305
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Access
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
Duties to describe on a agricultural worker resume
- Loaded and unloaded crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transferred augers.
- Recorded information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
- Fed and watered livestock and monitored food and water supplies.
- Mixed specified materials or chemicals, and dumped solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Directed and monitored the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
- Herded livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
Titles along the way
- Agricultural Worker
- Lead Agricultural Worker
- Farm Operations Supervisor
Your salary range
Pick where you work and how long you have done it. The range comes from the published wage percentiles for this job.
Experience
The survey has no complete figures for that job — pick the closest title from the list.
Name this figure
When they ask “What are your salary expectations?”
An estimate from survey percentiles, not an offer. Employer, industry, shift and credentials move pay within and beyond this range. Full wage page for this job →