Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

The job requires a minimum of three months experience in tasks associated with farm experience.

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. The worker will walk down the aisles between the plants in the corn fields, for the purpose of detasseling seed corn, remove rogue plants, weeds and volunteer corn plants from seed corn production fields. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands. The employer will provide the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the job described without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.

Field Task: Weeding, taking, leaf sampling, gene checks, staking, picking up trash, and stocking harvest supplies.

Production Harvest: Unloading trucks, hand sort of ear corn, operating husking equipment, loading and unloading ear corn, dryers, assisting in shelling operations, cleaning and maintaining equipment, maintenance and cleaning of plant grounds in the harvest area, and other basic maintenance tasks.

Quality Checker: Worker may be asked to check the quality by moving down a row checking quality to ensure that all seed tassels were sufficiently removed. They will report issues to work supervisor.

Other Requirements: Workers seeking employment under this job order must be available for entire period requested by the employer.

Special Requirements

The job requires a minimum of three months experience in tasks associated with farm experience.