- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 155
- Job Duties:
- Farm Laborers Workers will perform general farm labor duties including planting, harvesting, picking, grading, pruning, loading, and unloading agricultural products such as broccoli, ghost pepper, zucchini, yellow squash, butternut squash, beans, peas, okra, green beans, tomatillos, jalapeños, eggplant, watermelon, peanuts, and tomatoes. Duties also include general labor at cotton gins, including pressing and sampling cotton, feeding module rakes with loose cotton, and transporting cotton within the yard. Additional responsibilities include pulling weeds, lining rows, picking up stumps, raking, pulling plastic, cleaning shed areas, laying irrigation pipe, cleaning fields, and digging ditches. Workers will remove plants and field debris after harvest and assist in field preparation for subsequent planting cycles, including removal of old plastic, drip tape, trash, rocks, and debris. Work requires frequent bending, stooping, walking, and reaching, and the use of a knife to harvest crops at the proper size and maturity.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse