- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- This job will encompass irrigation of crops, planting, and harvesting. The crops are corn, alfalfa, barley, and wheat.
The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.
Three months experience of general farm labor is required.
All other duties assigned under this order will be those duties of Agricultural Equipment Operators and Farm Worker and Laborer Crop, Nursery and Greenhouse, under the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics Standard Occupational Classification Codes 45-2091 and 45-2092.
General Farm Work will include the following duties
1. Maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements, tractors, equipment to till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize, and harvest crops
2. Make mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery
3. May mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable)
4. Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops or farm grounds
5. Remove rocks from fields, edges of fields, concrete ditches, etc.
6. Paint, maintain, repair, farm structures
7. Perform general clean-up of farm areas
8. Operate motor bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATV’s), John Deere Gators, in the course of performing duties
9. Operate or maintain equipment used in agricultural production and field preparation such as tractors, irrigation equipment, 4-wheelers, pick-ups, non-CDL, farm exempt trucks, and other commonly used equipment in agriculture.
10. Workers may also clear debris and garbage from fields and clean/maintain farm buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas
11. Load and mix chemicals in addition to operating tractors pulling sprayers and/or operate sprayer
12. Operate tractor and implement to mow weeds on field edges
13. Backpack spray as required and/or operate tractor with spray tank connected to 3-point to spray weeds and/or ground
14. Burn weeds on all properties
15. Pull and/or hoe weeds on all properties
16. Baiting and trapping rodents as required
17. Operate non-CDL, exempt farm trucks, semi-trucks, 10-wheelers trucks, and/or any vehicle to haul corn, alfalfa (hay bales, haylage, green chop) from fields to farm
18. Workers that are insurable and have a valid drivers license may transport crops, supplies, equipment and workers.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators