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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

15

Job Duties:

Crops: Beans, beets, cabbages, carrots, corn, green beans, oats, potatoes, wheat, sweet corn, rye, onions. Manually pick/lift/carry stones from fields to truck/loader/woods to clear fields. Cut, chop, and/or pull weeds or vines, pick up wood, sticks, and/or stones from fields or hedgerows. Manually hand and/or machine plant cabbage or onion plants. May walk behind machine planter and cover transplanted cabbage or onion plugs. May ride mechanical transplanter and load cabbage or onion plants in planting cups. Assist in the planting of potatoes including but not limited to riding on the potato planter. May help unload potato seed into the potato planter. Farmyard work including raking, picking up sticks and/or leaves from yards. May harvest beets, carrots, and potatoes. Hand weed/hoe weeds from cabbage, beets, beans, carrots, corn, sweet corn, onions and/or potatoes. Will ride on carrot/beet harvester to manually remove tops and/or dirt. Will clean and maintain vegetable harvesting equipment. Hand harvest and/or assist in the mechanical harvest of onions. Grade and/or sort onions. Manually pack onions into totes, bags, crates, or trucks. May walk behind harvester and hand pick onions that were missed by harvester. Assist in the repair and cleaning of potato harvesting equipment and potato barn equipment. Will ride potato harvester and pick stone clods and bad potatoes. Manually grade, cut defective potatoes including green potatoes. Workers may grade the potatoes as they are unloaded from trucks that come from the fields into the storage (located on farm) or into customers trucks. Potatoes are graded outside before they are washed and graded inside after they are washed. Workers may also grade potatoes inside the storage area as they come out of storage to be loaded onto customers trucks. Grade carrots as they are unloaded from farm trucks and into storage (located on the farm). Grade carrots as they are coming out of storage and into bags/totes for customers (located on the farm). Assist in cleaning carrot grading equipment, area and storage. Will hand cut/harvest cabbage or assist in cabbage harvest that is harvested mechanically. Load, unload, carry, hookup, and/or monitor irrigation pipe or systems.

Job Classification:

45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Three months verifiable experience required in commercial, conventional farming in the agricultural jobs/tasks listed. Applicants must be 18 years or older. Random drug and alcohol testing may be done in accordance with state law, post-hire at employer's expense. The employer will pay all fees associated with conducting a criminal background check on any applicants. Workers rarely stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel. crouch, bend, (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift and carry items weighing up to 75 pounds in the course of performing required activities. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold, and other natural elements. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight, and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties.

Number of Hours Per Week:

50

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

My-T Acres, Inc. - April FW

Location:

Batavia, NY 14020

Worksite

Address:

43.02575,-78.2214, Batavia, NY 14020

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25029-650973

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

2/10/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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