Farm Laborer
Employer
3701 Mt. Hermon Road
Tompkinsville, KY 42167
United States
Job description
Topping- the workers will walk the rows removing the top couple of inches of blooms from the plants. Once ready, the workers will use tobacco knives to cut down the plants and place 5 to 6 stalks of tobacco onto wooden sticks using a metal tobacco spike. In 2 to 3 days of drying out in the fields, they will go back, haul and hang the sticks in the barns. After several weeks of drying out and weather permitting, they will remove sticks from the barn and take the stalks off the sticks and place into piles. They will learn to remove the leaves into 3 grades, by looks and color, then bundle/tie up their leaves in large burlap bags, tagged by numbers for baling. Workers are expected to bundle/tie up their discarded tobacco sticks, empty their stalks onto wagons, and clean up the area where they stripped. the baling process is putting the stripped leaves into large baling machines, that will compress the tobacco into bales and weigh them. Workers will do basic farm jobs (cleaning, fencing, mowing, weed 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 be trained by employer before each phase of the tobacco process, so that they are familiar with equipment (that's provided at no charge) and that they understand each process.