Skills
41 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Essential knowledge
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Essential skills / competences
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Optional knowledge
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Optional skills / competences
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Overview
Hop farmers plant, cultivate, monitor and harvest hops for products such as beer, managing crop growth, soil work, fertilisation, storage and harvest timing.
In job descriptions, look for hop cultivation, crop monitoring, sustainable tillage, field checks, fertilisation, crop disorders, harvest work, storage facilities and supervision of farm workers.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Hop farmer work follows the crop season. It can include soil preparation, planting, training hop plants, monitoring fields, fertilising, preventing crop disorders, harvesting and preparing storage.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes hop cultivation, crop production principles, sustainable tillage, soil structure, field monitoring, harvest work, storage maintenance and assigning tasks to agriculture workers.
Salary context
Salary context depends on farm scale, seasonal workload, crop responsibility, machinery use, storage duties, supervision of workers and whether the role manages the whole hop production cycle. This guide does not provide salary amounts.
Career paths
Career paths may develop from field work into crop lead, farm supervisor, hop production manager, organic production, storage coordination or broader tree and shrub crop management.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy names acreage, hop varieties, machinery, seasonal peaks, harvesting method, storage facilities, hygiene routines and how field workers are coordinated.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
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Occupation group
Tree and shrub crop growers (6112)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a6af318e-8a3a-4266-a1ef-cf7afe588201 |
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| ESCO code | 6112.3 |
| ISCO group | 6112 |
| Concept type | Occupation |