272 Sales of Farm & Gardening
Equipment and Supplies

This group includes occupations concerned with selling such items as tractors, farm implements and machinery, feed and feed supplements, fertilizer, and lawn and gardening tools, equipment, and accessories; and horticultural and nursery products, such as shrubs, trees, seeds, and bulbs.

272.357-010 SALES REPRESENTATIVE, ANIMAL-FEED PRODUCTS (whole. tr.)

Sells livestock- and poultry-feed products to farms and retail establishments: Suggests feed changes to improve breeding of fowl and stock. Performs other duties as described under SALES REPRESENTATIVE (re. tr.; whole. tr.). May specialize in selling feed supplements and be designated as SALES REPRESENTATIVE, CATTLE-AND-POULTRY FEED SUPPLEMENTS (whole. tr.).

272.357-014 SALES REPRESENTATIVE, FARM AND GARDEN EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (whole. tr.)

Sells farm and garden machinery, equipment, and supplies, such as tractors, feed, fertilizer, seed, insecticide, and farm and garden implements, performing duties as described under SALES REPRESENTATIVE (ret. tr.; whole. tr.). May sell spare parts and service contracts for machinery and equipment.

272.357-018 SALES REPRESENTATIVE, FARM AND GARDEN EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (whole. tr.)

Sells poultry equipment and supplies, such as brooders, coolers, feeders, graders, and washers: Advises customers on care and feeding of poultry, setting up of poultry equipment, and egg production problems, and suggests remedial measures for diseased poultry. Performs other duties as described under SALES REPRESENTATIVE (ret. tr.; whole. tr.). May sell chicks. May tend battery of brooders to hatch chicks.

272.357-022 SALESPERSON, HORTICULTURAL AND NURSERY PRODUCTS (ret. tr.; whole. tr.)

Sells container-grown plants and garden supplies in nursery, greenhouse, or department store: Advises customer on selection of plants and methods of planting and cultivation. Suggests trees and shrubbery suitable for specified growing conditions. Performs other duties as described under SALESPERSON (ret. tr.; whole. tr.). May water and trim growing plants on sales floor.

Adapted from US Department of Labor DOT for Dictionary of Agricultural Occupations

15 November 2004