Farm Laborer
Employer
280 Hargis Lane
LAFAYETTE, TN 37083
United States
Job description
The workers will help clean the area around greenhouses and float beds, keep plants mowed/trimmed back until time to set the tobacco plants. The setting process requires long hours of sitting, and loading plant trays on the setter, and placing the plants into shoots to be put into ground. Workers will rotate following the setter to replant anything that got missed. The workers will keep the weeds/grass chopped out between the rows of tobacco in the fields. Once the plants bloom, the workers will walk the rows removing the top couple of inches of blooms from the plants. Once ready, workers will use tobacco knives to cut down the plants and placing 5 to 6 plants onto wooden sticks using a metal tobacco spike. In two to three days, they will go back and haul and hang the sticks in the barn. After 5 weeks of drying out and weather permitting, they will remove sticks from barn and take stalks off of the stick into piles. They will learn to remove the leaves into 3 grades, by looks and color. then bundle into large burlap bags, tied and tagged with numbers for baling. Workers are expected to bundle/tie up their tobacco sticks, discard empty stalks, and clean up the barn area where they stripped. The baling process is putting leaves into large baling machines that will compress the tobacco leaves into bales and weighing them. Workers will do basic farm jobs (cleaning, fencing, mowing, wed eating, etc.) during the between times of tobacco processes, to help ensure their 3/4 guaranteed hours of their contracts, lifting 50 to 60 pounds, climbing, walking, bending, and repeated movements are all requirements of tobacco labor workers.
Special Requirements
Workers will trained by employer before each phase of the tobacco process, so that they are familiar with the equipment, ( that is provided) and that they understand each process.