Farm Worker

Job description

Crops including but not limited to: Beans, Beets, Cabbages, Carrots, Celery, Corn, Field crops, Grains, Green beans, Oats, Onions, Peas, Rye, Vegetables, Wheat, Potatoes.

Manually pick, lift, and carry stones from fields to truck, loader, or woods to clear fields. Cut, chop, and/or pull weeds or vines. Pick up wood, sticks, and/or stones from fields or hedgerows. Manually hand and/or machine plant cabbage or onion plants. May walk behind a machine planter and cover transplanted cabbage plugs. May ride a mechanical transplanter and load cabbages or onion plants into planting cups. Assist in the planting of potatoes, including but not limited to riding on the potato planter. May help unload potato seed into the potato planter. Perform farmyard work, including raking and picking up sticks and/or leaves from yards. Hand harvest and/or assist in the mechanical harvest of onions. Grade and/or sort onions. Manually pack onions into totes, bags, crates, or trucks. May walk behind harvester and hand pick onions that were missed by harvester. May harvest beets, carrots, and potatoes. Hand weed or hoe weeds from abbage, beets, beans, carrots, corn, sweet corn, onions and/or potatoes. Ride on a carrot or beet harvester to manually remove tops and/or dirt. Clean and maintain vegetable harvesting equipment. Assist in the minor repair and cleaning of potato harvesting equipment and potato barn equipment. Ride on the potato harvester and pick stone clods and bad potatoes. Manually grade and cut defective potatoes, including green potatoes. Workers may grade potatoes as they are unloaded from trucks arriving from fields into storage (located on the farm) or into customers' trucks. Potatoes are graded outside before washing and graded inside after washing. Workers may also grade potatoes inside the storage area as they come out of storage to be loaded onto customers' trucks. Grade carrots as they are unloaded from farm trucks and placed into storage (located on the farm). Grade carrots as they are removed from storage and placed into bags or totes for customers (located on the farm). Assist in cleaning carrot grading equipment, areas, and storage. Hand cut or harvest cabbage or assist in cabbage harvest conducted mechanically. Load, unload, carry, hook up, and/or monitor irrigation pipes or systems.
Workers may occasionally operate and move equipment, such as tractors or mowers.

Special Requirements

Two months verifiable experience required in commercial, conventional farming in the agricultural jobs/tasks listed. Applicants must be 18 years or older. Post-hire, employer-paid random drug and alcohol testing may be done in accordance with state law. Workers are not permitted to be under the influence of intoxicants of any kind during working hours. The company may conduct employer-paid criminal background checks on all new applicants for employment. Seasonal Employees seeking rehire will not be required to submit a new background check. For purposes of this policy, rehires shall be defined consistently with IRCA's employment eligibility re-verification requirements for former hires. As a general rule, absent compelling circumstances, qualified applicants with criminal records will not be considered for employment if any of the following criteria are met: