Farmworker

Job description

Duties may include but are not limited to: plant, cultivate and harvest tobacco. Flue cured, burley and dark Tobacco requires planting, cultivating, remove tops and suckers from the plants, and oiling. Flue cured requires that you pull mature leaves from tobacco stalks by hand and place leaves in trailers for transport to tobacco barns for curing, then prepared to be placed in the barns, once cured is removed and placed in bins to be baled. Bales weighing 650 to 850 pounds are mechanically loaded in trucks for transport to market. Other types of tobacco are harvested by cutting the whole plant and curing.

Planting, Cultivating & Harvesting Row Crops - Duties may include but are not limited to plant, cultivate, harvest and store soybeans;

Hay/Straw -Hay must be cut, raked and bailed. If square bales workers will move along rows of previously bailed haw/straw, bending, stooping and lifting bails, loading and stacking onto a truck or trailer for transport to storage area. If round bales they will be loaded with tractor on the truck or trailer for transport to storage area.

Special Requirements

Workers will be expected to conform to the specific instructions given for each days work. Assignments will be made by employer or a designated employee. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on the same day. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning and through the heat of the day, working in fields. Temperatures may range from 30F to 110F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Employers will provide workers, without cost to them, with appropriate rain gear. Considerable bending is required. Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent, stooped or crouched positions for long periods of time. Allergies to grass, weeds, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc., may affect workers ability to perform the work.