General Farm/irrigation Worker

Job description

Worker will be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of onions, wheat, corn, sugar beets and hops. The majority of the work activities during the overall contract period, however, will be related to general farm work/irrigation/crop production. Will apply techniques as instructed by the employer when carrying out the following responsibilities:
General Farm Work: Maintain, drive, attach and operate farm implements/tractors/equipment/farm trucks to till and/or disk soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize, spray and harvest crops. Make minor mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery; move hand lines/pipes for irrigation; may mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable). Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops, farm grounds; perform general cleanup/maintenance of farm areas, corrugates and ditches surrounding fields; drive, load/unload farm trucks; operate vehicle motor bike, or al terrain vehicle in the course of performing duties; repair fencing.
Drip Irrigation: walk behind tractor to install and lay drip irrigation equipment in fields, move hoses, ensure lay flat spools correctly when removing from field; maintain/repair drip irrigation; flush lines. Remove drip irrigation and lay flat from fields prior to harvest.
Corn Job Description: detasseling corn.
Onion Job Description: plant onions by walking behind tractors observe the planter (unclog planter if necessary); weed onions; build/repair bins; measure/cut wood to proper length; place wood on jigs; nail using air gun; dump onion bags into bins; operate Hyster for stacking bins.
Onion Harvesting: hand harvest onions; clip ends off onions and toss the tops back in the field; place in bags and lay in field to mature; even rows for harvest; gather bagged onions from field and transfer onions into bins; remove unwanted debris from binning line; drive/operate equipment to stack/organize bins at onion storage; transfer raw onions to transport trucks via sack harvesting implement (conveyor line); lift, dump stack, remove sacks from line.
Hop Production: maintain/repair trellises; including replacement of old hop poles, fix/replace wire; prepare fields for planting; dip and tamp post holes; install poles; line poles; drive/operate equipment to install wire and poles; put straws out in field to mark where plants will go; plant hop roots; dig/cut hop roots; use compressor to blow dirt away from hop root; use cutting tool to dig hop roots; divide/bundle hop roots and place in bins; plant/replant/transport roots; attach twine between trellis and ground; drive stringing cart; ride on farm implement car, approx. 18ft. above the ground and hand tie twine to trellis; place metal W clips into the ground with gun; repair broken/loose twine; dampen twine; break twine bails; stack twine; train vines around twine; remove vines/broken strings/weeds and excess debris from growing hop plants.
Hop Harvest: operate top cutter/bottom cutter; drive hop farm trucks from fields to hop facilities; pick up vines left behind, cut vines with machete; grab/lift/place vines on hooks; clean hop debris from work site; oversee picker program; checks the belts, vine transfers and trash; operate valves on machinery to regulate vines coming down track; regulate flow of vines into picker; sweep/clean hop debris from machines and work areas; monitor moisture content in hops in dryer facility; assist main dryer worker, operate/maintain/adjust dryer controls, temperature and air flow; transport conveyors using farm trucks. Move dry hops from dryer to baler once drying is complete, report/record specific information for hop drying quality; push dried hops onto belt to baler, compress/bale hops; hauling/loading bales onto farm trucks.