farm worker

Crops: Sweet potatoes

Harvesting of sweet potatoes: Workers will walk along rows in the field and harvest sweet potatoes by hand. Duties include bending, stooping, and kneeling to dig sweet potatoes from the soil, placing them into buckets or field containers, and carrying filled containers to a truck, trailer, or designated collection point. Workers may also sort sweet potatoes in the field by size or quality, remove damaged or diseased potatoes, and clean work areas as assigned.