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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

12

Job Duties:

Workers will be performing jobs pertaining to burley or dark tobacco, helping maintain the greenhouse plants( mowing and keeping them trimmed back, until time to plant), setting/planting the greenhouse plants in the fields, chopping out weeds between the plants and rows of tobacco, topping the top couple of inches from the tobacco plants that bloom/flower out and removing any suckers, cutting tobacco consists of using metal tobacco knives and cutting the tobacco plants at the bottom of the stalks and placing in piles of 5 or 6 ( depending on the size of the plants) and then coming back to put those piles of stalks onto a wooden tobacco stick using a metal spike, and standing the stick upright in the fields. After a few days of drying out in the sun, the sticks will be loaded onto wagons/trailers, and taking to the barns to be hung onto tear poles inside the barns. After several weeks of drying/curing out in the barns, the sticks will be taken down and stalks removed from the sticks and placed into large piles for stripping. Stripping consists of removing the leaves from the stalks and sorting them by looks and colors for grading. The leaves are later placed into large baling machines that compress the leaves into bales, weighing around 600 pounds, and labeled. Workers will do basic farm jobs (cleaning, fencing, mowing, weed eating, etc.) during the between times of tobacco processes, to help ensure their 3/4 guaranteed hours of their contracts. Lifting 50 to 60 pounds, climbing, walking, bending, and repeated movements are all requirements of tobacco labor workers.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

Workers will be trained by employer before each phase of the tobacco process, so that they are familiar with equipment ( that is provided, at no charge to workers) and that they understand each process.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Poverty Ridge Farms

Company Name:

James T. Landers

Location:

Scottsville, KY 42164

Worksite

Address:

2878 Old Gallatin Road, Scottsville, KY 42164

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25049-702166

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

$.48 cents per stick to cut/spike/haul tobacco, $.45 per stick to take down/strip/bale tobacco, with an average of $16.00 to $18.00 hour doing piece rate work but will never be less than the $15.87 hourly rate, all other farm jobs is $15.87 hour

Date Posted:

3/3/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.48

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