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Plant crops, trees, or other plants

This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.

Part of Perform agricultural activities, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 3 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.Stays human Agricultural Equipment Operators
• Select tree seedlings, prepare the ground, or plant the trees in reforestation areas, using manual planting tools.Stays human Forest and Conservation Workers

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs.Stays human Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse