Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop

Job description

Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor,
Cabbage harvesting: The cabbage Cutters will line up in designated cabbage rows. Workers will bend over each cabbage to cut. After cutting the cabbage, workers will inspect and trim. Workers will then put the cabbage in a bag and put the bag on a stainless steel table that will be continually pushed behind the cutters as they proceed on their rows. Workers should be able to keep up with the machine.
Planting of cabbage: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day.
Sorting: Workers will sort heads of cabbage ensuring product is reasonable solidity, and are not withered, puffy, or burst and which are free from soft rot, seed stems, and from damage caused by discoloration, freezing, disease, insects or mechanical or other means. Stems shall be cut so that they do not extend more than one-half inch beyond the point of attachment of the outermost leaves.
Packing: Trucks will take the harvested cabbage to the packing house which is located inside the farm, workers will be separated the cabbage by size, labeled and packed.
Field packing: workers will place harvested cabbage onto the stainless steel packing table on the harvesting machine. The workers standing on the harvesting machine will pack the cabbage into boxes; once boxes are full the worker will staples the boxes shut and are loaded onto a trailer.
Weeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.

Note: The packing house is located inside the Farm and more than 50% of the product processed is produced by the Fixed Site Employer.

General Maintenance: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair.

Special Requirements

This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning.