Farmworker
Employer
VAGA & grower members -See Addendum B
South Boston, VA 24592
United States
Job description
Primary Tasks are Grape Production. Which will include, planting, cultivating, placing bamboo stakes, installing grow tubes, installing trellis, weeding, hedging, pruning, thinning fruit and removing shoots, tying up vines, harvesting. Performs vineyard grounds maintenance activities, such as but not limited to weed control with mowers and chemicals and may load and unload trucks. Performs a variety of tasks under supervision in the vineyard/winery operation when work in vineyard is not available.
Secondary Task may include any or all of the following:
Planting, Cultivating and Harvesting Vegetables/Fruits - Duties may include but are not limited to: plant, cultivate, harvest and pack produce in boxes, buckets, and/or crates. May assist in set-up of product for sale of crop. Produce may include a variety of cucumbers, squash, sweet potatoes, potatoes, peppers, grapes, berries, asparagus, broccoli, beans, cantaloupes, peas, pumpkins, melons, tomatoes, corn, and other miscellaneous fruits or vegetables. Workers are also expected to perform task of packing, weighing, and loading trucks.
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.
Livestock - will include assisting with delivery, apply or administer medications, vaccines and/or insecticides, mix feed and additives, feed, water, herd, clean/disinfect livestock corrals/stalls/sheds, castrate, brand, clip/tag and clamp livestock.
In addition to the duties listed above in connection with the crops, the worker may or may not be required to perform variable tasks such as the following: Irrigation, ditching, hoeing, shoveling, placement and removal of plastic, spraying pesticides, fungicides or herbicides, loading, unloading, and hauling, etc.
Alternative work -General farm work will include maintain, drive, attach and operate farm implements/tractors/equipment connected with the duties listed above, make minor mechanical adjustments, repairs and service farm machinery, paint/repair farm structures, replace/repair fencing, perform general cleanup of farm areas, load and unload trucks, removal of rocks and clearing of land which is related to land preparation.
Special Requirements
See Addendum C