Farmworker Laborer And Crop

Job description

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest peaches and apples. Use hand tools, such as shovels,
trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks and shears. Duties may include tilling soil and applying
fertilizers, transplanting, weeding, thinning or pruning crops; applying pesticides; cleaning,
packing, and loading harvested products. Will prune, plant, cultivate, irrigate, fertilize, harvest,
and sort fruit crops while working outside in all types of weather. Must have at 3months or 480
hours of verifiable experience, ability to lift and carry 75 lbs. and pick fruit with a 3% or less
bruise rate. During busy harvest season workers may be requested to start earlier and work more than the scheduled hours per week, including holidays. When weather is hot, starting and
quitting times may be shifted to earlier or later in the day. This may vary depending on weather conditions.