This encompasses all the heavy outdoor operations required to manage crops and soil, including ploughing, planting, spraying, and harvesting. It draws a strict line between land-based operations and indoor tasks like equipment maintenance in the shop, administrative work in the office, or milking in the parlor. Scheduling depends entirely on weather windows and soil moisture levels.
Heard on the job
We got a solid three days of fieldwork done before the rain shut us down and pushed everyone back into the shop.