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O*NET detailed work activityResearch crop management methods
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AI can get you up to speed fast and suggest where to look, but you need to confirm findings against real sources, records or people.
Part of Research agricultural processes or practices, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 7 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
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- Compare crop yield maps with maps of soil test data, chemical application patterns, or other information to develop site-specific crop management plans.
- Investigate responses of soils to specific management practices to determine the use capabilities of soils and the effects of alternative practices on soil productivity.
- Conduct applied research aimed at improvements in areas such as disease testing, crop quality, pharmaceuticals, and the harnessing of microbes to recycle waste.
- Conduct research to determine best methods of planting, spraying, cultivating, harvesting, storing, processing, or transporting horticultural products.
- Study forage plants and their growth requirements to determine varieties best suited to particular range.
- Analyze effect of forest conditions on tree growth rates and tree species prevalence and the yield, duration, seed production, growth viability, and germination of different species.
- Determine the germination rates of seeds planted in specified areas.