Glossary
Farm Labor Contractor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential farm labor contractor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key farm labor contractor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in farm labor contractor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Adverse effect wage rate
- H-2A minimum wage.
- Crew leader
- Supervises a crew.
- Crop rotation
- Changing crops each season.
- Extension service
- University outreach to farmers.
- Field sanitation
- Toilets and water in fields.
- H-2A
- Temporary agricultural worker visa.
- Heat illness prevention
- Rules for hot weather.
- Housing inspection
- Checks worker housing.
- Joint employer
- Shared employer responsibility.
- MSPA
- Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.
- Piece rate
- Pay per unit picked.
- Sustainability
- Long-term resource care.
- USDA
- U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Wage statement
- Pay stub.
- Yield
- Amount harvested.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Farm Labor Contractor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Farm Labor Contractor training.
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