Farm Worker

Job description

Crops: Rice, Soybeans, Wheat, Corn

Workers will perform all tasks traditionally included in the operation of diversified agricultural farms. We grow a variety of crops. Workers will work in the fields and in the pack area, on the farm. Field work includes: manually plant, cultivate, and harvest listed field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Some duties include tilling soil and transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops. Weeding and thinning done by hands, hoes, and tractor implements. Assist with irrigation including the laying out irrigation lines. Assist with trellising and pruning. Assist with field preparation and clean up. Operate tractors and implements. Implements include, but are not limited to seeders, transplanters, plastic mulch layer and lifter, drip tape layer, cultivating equipment, rototiller, mower. Washing and packing duties sorting/grading, washing, bunching, and packing of produce. Workers will also assist in the cleaning and sanitation of the packing area. Additional duties include operating farm vehicles, i.e. small pick-up trucks and tractors, on and off the farm, cleaning and maintaining farm equipment and vehicles, and loading and unloading trucks. Through use of basic power tools like drills and saws, along with hand tools like hammers and screwdrivers, workers will assist with maintenance of existing structures and the repairing of fencing. Workers will also assist with moving, loading, and unloading various materials, tools, and commodities around the farm as needed including hay bales, harvested/packed commodities, soil/mulch, shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers,
pruning hooks, shears, knives, and any debris/detritus created incidental to Employer's farming operations.

Special Requirements

3 months experience working with the listed crops. Ability to communicate in English for training and safety purposes.
Workers with a clean MVR and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be requested to operate employer-owned trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to haul tools, supplies, crops, and transport workers (whether on or off farm) to and from the worker housing to the farm properties and occasionally around the farm properties during the workday including on public roads to reach the fields where work will be performed; and/or may transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as needed basis. No applicants or workers will be rejected for not possessing a drivers license or who may be unwilling to drive company vehicles. Such duties are completely optional and may be declined by the worker at his or her sole discretion.