Farm Laborer
Employer
2878 Old Gallatin Road
Scottsville, KY 42164
United States
Job description
Workers will be performing jobs pertaining to burley or dark tobacco, helping maintain the greenhouse plants( mowing and keeping them trimmed back, until time to plant), setting/planting the greenhouse plants in the fields, chopping out weeds between the plants and rows of tobacco, topping the top couple of inches from the tobacco plants that bloom/flower out and removing any suckers, cutting tobacco consists of using metal tobacco knives and cutting the tobacco plants at the bottom of the stalks and placing in piles of 5 or 6 ( depending on the size of the plants) and then coming back to put those piles of stalks onto a wooden tobacco stick using a metal spike, and standing the stick upright in the fields. After a few days of drying out in the sun, the sticks will be loaded onto wagons/trailers, and taking to the barns to be hung onto tear poles inside the barns. After several weeks of drying/curing out in the barns, the sticks will be taken down and stalks removed from the sticks and placed into large piles for stripping. Stripping consists of removing the leaves from the stalks and sorting them by looks and colors for grading. The leaves are later placed into large baling machines that compress the leaves into bales, weighing around 600 pounds, and labeled. Workers will do basic farm jobs (cleaning, fencing, mowing, weed eating, etc.) during the between times of tobacco processes, to help ensure their 3/4 guaranteed hours of their contracts. Lifting 50 to 60 pounds, climbing, walking, bending, and repeated movements are all requirements of tobacco labor workers.
Special Requirements
Workers will be trained by employer before each phase of the tobacco process, so that they are familiar with equipment ( that is provided, at no charge to workers) and that they understand each process.