- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 30
- Job Duties:
- Workers will perform pollination, detasseling, field maintenance, data collection, harvest, seed processing, and other general farm labor tasks as required. Other duties include: Planting (machine and manually by digging furrow and covering after seed drop), cultivating, and harvesting diversified crops, such as: corn, soy, watermelon, pumpkins, honeydew, kabocha, onions, and other vegetable and fruit crops as required. Workers will weed or thin plants using hoe or gardening tools. Set out poles and strings, wire or twine to build trellises or fences. Position, tie leaves, prune limbs, runners, buds from vines on plants such as cucumber (all cucurbits crops), beans or all vine crops. Set irrigation line, check for leaks, flush out debris and repair lines to irrigate seedlings. May use irrigation trailer, fertilizer injector, sprayers, trailers, farm machines, and operate tractors/farm trucks with implements such as plow/harrow, disk, bed shaper, roll tiller, fertilizer hopper, seed driller/planter, manure/sand spreader and soil spreader, in fields, to till soil, plant, cultivate, and tender for crops. Harvest crops by picking, pulling, cleaning, cutting, sorting, bagging, and boxing.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse