Farmworker

Job description

Crops/Commodities:
crops including, but not limited to, tree fruit and vegetables
ROCK/ROOTS/STICK/BRUSH PICK UP AND REMOVAL:
Worker will pick up hand rocks, roots, sticks, brush from ground and place on trailers, in loader buckets or piles. The use of pointed shovel, ax, loppers or pry bar may be necessary for help with pick up. Pay will be hourly. Worker will be required to walk, bend, kneel, stoop and lift for long periods of time.

HOEING:
Worker will walk down rows of planted crops using a garden hoe to remove weeds from growing around and within the plants. Care must be exercised as to not dig up or harm the adjacent vegetable plants. Pay will be hourly. Worker must be able to walk, bend, kneel, stoop and stand for long periods of time and work at a steady and efficient pace.

GENERAL FARM LABOR:
Some of the work required from the worker to be performed that is incidental to farming crops listed in this application may be described as performing hand cultivation duties, planting crops, transplanting (may include riding on a transplant machine), cutting spears and sorting, weeding or hoeing crops, cleaning, repairing seed beds and racks, setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment. Tasks the worker must be able to perform include: assist in pest controls; install culverts for field drainage; remove and reinstall sprinklers, remove debris, boxes, and discarded plants from fields to keep clean growing areas; general ranch maintenance; basic irrigation maintenance; clean and maintenance equipment and tools, assist in equipment cleaning, assist in applications by hand or tractor of fertilizers and or/pesticides; frost control of sprinklers, frost blanket coverings, or hoop coverings. May be necessary to assist in the use of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks and harvest machinery, etc.

WEEDING:
Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe/pickaxe 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 directed by the farm manager and or/crew supervisor.

ORCHARD MAINTENANCE:
Workers will perform any of the following duties: Hand thinning, strap and tie fruit trees for tree training (may require motorized platform); pick up rocks, roots and limbs, strip and pull suckers and training tree, install bamboo stakes, wires, clips, posts and irrigation tubing; pull weeds, spread mouse bait, clean equipment, built/repair tree trellises, spread compost, remove strings and wire from trellises, cutting suckers and training trees, fixing boxes, cutting back fence rows, hanging deer deterrents, watering trees, putting on trees guards and other hand task. Care of young-non-producing fruit trees, including weeding, tree trunk painting, hand fertilizing, hand clipping and feathering trees. Tree trimming, thinning & tying, picking up rocks & sticks.Workers may be on tractors spraying, general orchard Maintenance (new orchard establishment and maintaining current producing Orchards) on tractors and then during harvest moving bins empty and one full of fruit.

PRUNING:
The supervisor will set the standard for pruning a block of trees and will provide all the necessary equipment to perform the required task. Workers will be assigned rows of trees and must prune according to the predetermined standard. All limbs and branches pruned must be removed from the tree and moved to the center of the drive row. Pruning may involve the use of ladders and motorized platforms. Hand pruners, hydraulic saws and air pruners may be used for cutting limbs.

Workers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer’s products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.

Special Requirements

This job requires a minimum of 3 months of agricultural field work experience handling both manual and mechanized tasks. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 50 lbs. Employer-paid pre-employment and post-hire drug testing required. Criminal background check required.