Farm Workers

Job description

Crops/Commodities: onions.

Perform manual labor to pull, bundle, bag, load, and unload Vidalia onion plants onto trucks and plant sprouts. Unload bundles of plants into baskets and throw plants onto beds, transplant into prepared holes and cover holes with dirt (according to supervisor's instructions). Duties may include tilling soil, weeding or thinning crops; counting and checking onion plants. Set up and operate irrigation equipment. Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant and cultivate crops. Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress. Prepare, clean up, and maintain fields. Workers are also responsible for farm and field sanitation including picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and other farm and field sanitation duties. Remove unnecessary growth from specific fields. Must assist with all Good Agricultural Practices policies.

Special Requirements

Three months of commercial vegetable farm work experience is required. Perform prolonged walking, sitting, bending, pushing, pulling and reaching and work outside in extremely cold and/or wet weather. Repetitive movements. Employer is a drug-free workplace. Drug testing is conducted post hire at the employers expense and is not part of the interview process. Negative results are required before starting work. Any employee who declines to take or fails a drug test will be immediately terminated.