harvest worker

Seasonal crop gatherer

A harvest worker is someone employed to gather crops during the harvesting season.

The term often implies temporary or seasonal labor, particularly in agriculture where large workforces are needed for brief periods: Harvest workers arrived in September to pick the apples.

The work is typically manual and physically demanding.

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day laborer · migrant · farm labor · fields · crops · bushels · sweat · orchard · vineyard · seasonal · sunburned · straw hat · buckets · rows · dawn · sun up · stooped · fruit

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agricultural cycle stage

harvest workerplanter

Container for greenery

sower · seed planter · seedsman · transplanter · cultivator

agricultural role hierarchy

harvest workergrower

One who raises plants

landowner · farmer · plantation owner · farm manager · rancher

relationship to crops

harvest workerpest

Harmful creature or nag

locust · blight

Family

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