Farm Worker

Job description

Tools and Equipment:
The employer will furnish, without charge, all tools, supplies, and equipment required in the performance of the specified work. Workers will be charged for any willful damage or loss of such tools and equipment.

Greenhouse:
Workers may seed plant trays.
Workers may clean and wash plant trays.
Workers may apply water and fertilizers to plants in trays.
Workers may clip and mow plants.
Workers may load plant trays onto trucks and wagons.
Setting Tobacco
Workers may ride setting machine to plant tobacco.
Workers may plant by hand.
Workers may load plant trays onto equipment for setting.
Workers may stack and remove trays from fields.
Workers may prepare fields for planting.
Workers may reset missing plants by hand.

Top/Oil Tobacco
Workers may pull suckers from plants.
Workers may break tops & bad leaves from plants.
Workers may apply oils to tops of plants.
Cutting Tobacco
Workers will cut ripe plants off at the ground using tobacco knife and spear stalk over metal spear on to a wooden stick (stick is 48” long, one end is stuck in the ground and metal spear is placed on other end).
Workers will drop sticks in standing tobacco, before cutting, by hand or by machine.
Workers will transfer loaded sticks from ground to wagon or trailer in an orderly fashion.
Housing Tobacco:
Workers will transfer loaded stick from wagon or trailer to other workers standing on rails in the tobacco barn. Workers standing on rails will either hang sticks between rails and separate plants or transfer to another worker standing on the rails above them (rails may be 48” apart and from 6 feet to 40 feet above ground).
Stripping Tobacco:
Workers may place wood & sawdust in barns for curing process.
Workers will remove tobacco from rails in the barn and transport tobacco to stripping room.
Workers will pull leaves from plant stalks by hand and place in bailing machine.
Diversified Crops, hay, straw
Workers may clip and mow hay fields.
Workers may use equipment to rake and bale hay.
Workers may pick up bales and place on wagons or trucks.
Workers may place bales in sheds and barns for storage.
Workers may clean and prepare fields for neat crop.

Special Requirements

Workers will begin at an assigned time, 7:00 am and continue until 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. If work is available beyond normal workdays the employer may offer, but not require, the worker the opportunity to work additional hours. Workers are not required to work the Sabbath Day or Federal Holidays. Worker may be required to work in the fields when leaves are wet with dew or rain and should have suitable clothing for conditions including light rain and temperatures ranging from 60 degrees to more than 100 degrees.