Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, harvesting of various fruits and vegetables. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the crops grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.

Row Crops: The worker will be expected to perform the various activities associated with the planting, cultivating, picking, cutting, baling, and bagging of: corn, wheat, millet, chufa, pasture grasses, hay and other crops. These tasks will require individuals to work quickly and consistently for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness in the quality of work being completed. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer.

Hay: Moving and stacking hay. Worker must make sure that the surface of the cut fodder has dried. Using a side-delivery rake, the worker will then turn the windrows over allowing the hay to dry completely. The worker will inspect the hay for no other foliage. Dried hay may be stored in stacks or in bales. A truck or trailer will be driven between the windrows, and will be used to gather the fodder for stacking. The workers will fork the hay onto the trailer. Ropes should be laid on the trailer bed before any hay is loaded, in order to unload the hay quickly.

Nursery: The nursery work position includes duties associated with the pruning, planting, harvesting, spraying, removal of invasive species, and packing of nursery stock. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. Workers in winter months will be required to cover and uncover beds with frost protection cloth when temperatures reach freezing temps or below or when there is a chance for frost as this will cause damage to crops and delay finish ready weeks. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and maturity according to prescribed standards.

Livestock: The worker will be expected to perform the various activities associated with the general care and maintenance of cattle. These duties will include, but are not limited, to: feeding cattle, nursing sick cattle, bagging and grinding of feed, loading and unloading of feed, stock feeding, tagging calves, and building of and maintenance of fences. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer.

This work requires adherence to important safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase nursery stock, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.

Vehicle and Equipment Operation: Vehicle operation may include tractors, trucks combine, planters, mowers, back-hoe, tree spade, hand tools, trailers, haytedders, UTVs, and excavators. Workers will be instructed how to safely operate any of the mentioned vehicles or equipment prior to use.

Special Requirements

The employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at the employer's expense.

The employer may conduct criminal background checks post-employment and at the employer's expense.