Farm Workers And Laborers, Crop, Nursery, And Greenhouse
Employer
Route 63, 2nd left onto Batavia-Oakfield Townline Road, farm is on north side after the 1st 4 corner intersection
Oakfield, NY 14125
United States
Job description
Manually pick/lift/carry stones from fields to truck/loader/woods to clear fields. Cut, chop, and/or pull weeds or vines, pick up wood, sticks, and/or stones from fields or hedgerows. Manually hand and/or machine plant cabbage plants. May walk behind machine planter and cover transplanted cabbage plugs. May ride mechanical transplanter and load cabbages in planting cups. Assist in the planting of potatoes including but not limited to riding on the potato planter. May help unload potato seed into the potato planter. Farmyard work including raking, picking up sticks and/or leaves from yards. May harvest beets, carrots, and potatoes. Hand weed/hoe weeds from cabbage, beets, beans, carrots, and/or potatoes. Will ride on carrot/beet harvester to manually remove tops and/or dirt. Will clean and maintain vegetable harvesting equipment. Assist in the minor repair and cleaning of potato harvesting equipment and potato barn equipment. Will ride potato harvester and pick stone clods and bad potatoes. Manually grade, cut defective potatoes including green potatoes. Workers may grade the potatoes as they are unloaded from trucks that come from the fields into the storage (located on farm) or into customers trucks. Potatoes are graded outside before they are washed and graded inside after they are washed. Workers may also grade potatoes inside the storage area as they come out of storage to be loaded onto customers trucks. Grade carrots as they are unloaded from farm trucks and into storage (located on the farm). Grade carrots as they are coming out of storage and into bags/totes for customers (located on the farm). Assist in cleaning carrot grading equipment, area and storage. Will hand cut/harvest cabbage or assist in cabbage harvest that is harvested mechanically. Load, unload, carry, hookup, and/or monitor irrigation pipe or systems.
Special Requirements
Applicants must be 18 years or older. Three months experience in commercial, conventional farming in the jobs listed is requiring verifiable experience in performing the tasks posted in this job order. Random drug and alcohol testing may be done, post-hire at employers expense. Workers rarely stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend, (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift and carry items weighing up to 75 pounds in the course of performing required activities. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold, and other natural elements. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight, and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Workers may also work inside at storage, sorting, and/or packing areas.