Farm Worker

Job description

Crops: Beans, beets, cabbages, carrots, corn, green beans, oats, potatoes, wheat, sweet corn, rye, onions.

Manually pick, lift, and carry stones from fields to truck, loader, or 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 a machine planter and cover transplanted cabbage plugs. May ride a mechanical transplanter and load cabbages into 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. Perform farmyard work, including raking and picking up sticks and/or leaves from yards.

May harvest beets, carrots, and potatoes. Hand weed or hoe weeds from cabbage, beets, beans, carrots, and/or potatoes. Ride on a carrot or beet harvester to manually remove tops and/or dirt. Clean and maintain vegetable harvesting equipment. Assist in the minor repair and cleaning of potato harvesting equipment and potato barn equipment. Ride on the potato harvester and pick stone clods and bad potatoes. Manually grade and cut defective potatoes, including green potatoes.

Workers may grade potatoes as they are unloaded from trucks arriving from fields into storage (located on the farm) or into customers' trucks. Potatoes are graded outside before washing and graded inside after washing. 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 placed into storage (located on the farm). Grade carrots as they are removed from storage and placed into bags or totes for customers (located on the farm). Assist in cleaning carrot grading equipment, areas, and storage.

Hand cut or harvest cabbage or assist in cabbage harvest conducted mechanically. Load, unload, carry, hook up, and/or monitor irrigation pipes or systems.

Special Requirements

Three months verifiable experience required in commercial, conventional farming in the agricultural jobs/tasks listed. Applicants must be 18 years or older.
Random drug and alcohol testing may be done in accordance with state law, post-hire at employer's 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.