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Vineyard Workers

Vineyard Workers perform routine tasks on vineyards, such as cultivating and fertilising soil, planting, training and pruning vines, and picking grapes.

What the job involves

  • Plants vines and other plants using hand tools and farm machines

  • Builds trellises for climbing vines

  • Operates farm machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest grapes

  • Sprays vines and other plants with chemicals to control weed growth, insects, fungus growth and diseases

  • Prunes vines

  • Irrigates land for crop growth

  • Selects and picks grapes according to size and ripeness, and discards rotting and over-ripened produce

  • Grades, sorts, bunches and packs produce into containers

  • Loads filled grape containers onto trucks