- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 2
- Job Duties:
- The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivating, and harvesting hay. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers in a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers.
Hay
Basic duties to harvest hay including mowing, tending, raking, baling, loading and unloading. Moving and stacking hay. Worker must make sure that the surface of the cut fodder has dried. Using a side-delivery rake, the worker will then turn the windrows over allowing the hay to dry completely. The worker will inspect the hay for no other foliage. Dried hay may be stored in stacks or in bales. A truck or trailer will be driven between the windrows, and will be used to gather the fodder for stacking. The workers will fork the hay onto the trailer. Ropes should be laid on the trailer bed before any hay is loaded, in order to unload the hay quickly. Hay is harvested, sometimes into bales used for feeding livestock.
Tractor Operation During Field Operations
During picking, limb hauling, root hauling and hand fertilizer application, workers may be required to drive a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between field incidental to the job being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.
Forklift Operation During Field and Packing Operations
Workers may be required to operate forklifts during field operations as an incidental. Before any worker is required to operate a forklift, the worker will be instructed in the proper and safe operation. Workers will be required to operate forklifts according to instructions and in a manner that protects the operator, other workers and equipment. Repeated failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in termination.
Farm Field and Shed Sanitation
Workers may be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning farm equipment. This include personal hygiene and handling the hay in the field and shed with an emphasis on safety, sanitizing all harvesting and ag equipment and keeping the fields and shed as clean as possible.
During the foaling/breeding season, the worker may be expected to perform the various activities associated with the general care and maintenance of horses. These duties will include, but are not limited, to feeding horses, watering, herding, cleaning, administer medications, vaccinate, prepare foaling areas for pregnant mares. nursing sick horses, bagging and grinding of feed, loading and unloading of feed, stock feeding, tagging foals, and building of and maintenance of fences, pens, farm equipment, barns and farm equipment. Workers will assist in gathering horses for vet checks (checking mares for pregnancy). After foaling, workers must check the mare and foal daily to detect is either are sick or injured. Between 3 and 6 months, workers will assist in weaning the foals from the mares. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals