A professional who sorts agricultural produce, such as bulbs, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Respnsibilities include:

• Segregates produce on conveyor belt or table, working as crewmember, according to grade, color, and size, and places produce in containers or on designated conveyors.
• Discards cull (inferior or defective) items and foreign matter.
• Bunches, ties, and trims produce, such as asparagus, carrots, celery, and radishes.
• Picks out choice produce to be used as cappers (top layers on marketing containers).
• Packs produce in boxes, barrels, baskets, or crates for storage or shipment.
• May be designated according to work performed as apple sorter; asparagus grader and buncher; capper picker; citrus-fruit-packing grader; cull grader; potato grader.
• May be designated: asparagus sorter; banana grader; bulb sorter; cherry sorter; cranberry sorter; fig sorter; flower grader; fruit sorter; hop sorter; nut sorter; peach sorter; potato sorter; seed sorter; tomato grader; vegetable sorter; mushroom sorter-grader; trimmer-sorter; sorter-grader; raspberry checker.