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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

265

Job Duties:

Multiple contract dates available. Alternative start date(s) include: 04/01/2026 (150 workers); 04/15/2026 (35 workers); 05/20/2026 (80 workers). The exact start date and/or number of workers may vary based on weather, crop conditions or other factors. Crops/Commodities: greens, herbs, beets, broccoli, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash, cabbage, sweet corn, melons, cotton, blackberries, and blueberries.. Primary duties (performed the majority of workdays): Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade, and pack greens, herbs, beets, broccoli, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash, cabbage, sweet corn, melons, and cotton; and plant, cultivate, harvest, grade, sort and pack blackberries and blueberries and prune berry bushes. Pre-harvest duties include tilling soil, planting, re-planting, cultivating, weeding, using shears, knives and other various cultivation tools. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives. Pull weeds or hoe weeds in the field. Install irrigation equipment, including laying and connecting pipes and hoses. Dig and maintain irrigation ditches, field roads and right-of-ways. Install or remove items required in plasticulture. Install or remove stakes, wire, netting or string using hammers, wire clippers and other tools. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Harvest product using tools such as knives, clippers and shears. Operate agricultural equipment to plow, harrow, plant, cultivate, or harvest crops. Detassel corn by walking through corn fields, reaching to pull off the tassel of the corn plant and throwing it to the ground by hand. Walk throughout fields, pollinating, bending down to pull rogue plants, weeds and volunteer corn plants. Plant and harvest cotton. Load seed into hoppers and assist with mechanical cotton planting. Hand chop and rogue cotton. Load cotton bales. Pick up and load loose cotton. Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to pick ripe blueberries and blackberries by hand without bruising or damaging the fruit or bush. Workers must use care to pick bushes clean of all berries of the correct color and size, as instructed by their supervisor. Green and red berries must not be picked. Berries for fresh fruit markets must not be picked when wet. Defective and low quality fruit will not be accepted and must be discarded. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Workers must complete their own assigned rows as instructed by supervisor. Berries will be graded and packed into clam shell containers in flat trays according to supervisor's instructions ensuring that there are no leaks. Once flat trays of clamshells are full, workers will carry two or three trays at one time to trailers located in the fields at the end of the rows where fruit is inspected for quality and weight. Berries may also be harvested into buckets which are then carried to the end of the rows for inspection and dumping. Grade, sort, wash, select, count, check, load, unload, label or pack harvested products. Ice greens. Crops may be harvested and field packed or packed in the shed. Stack boxes onto pallets, transport vehicles or trailers. Assemble cartons, crates and containers using hand tools. Grade and sort products according to specified factors and discard defective, inferior and/or foreign matter. Place acceptable products in specified containers according to grade. Clean and maintain materials, containers, packing facility, fields, work areas, grounds, and equipment. Operate, repair, and maintain farm vehicles and agricultural equipment. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Workers will walk down rows, bending to prune and remove floricanes that are done producing fruit and tipping runners using hand pruners.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

2

Special Requirements:

Two months of verifiable vegetable harvesting experience required. Perform prolonged walking, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, heavy lifting and carrying up to 55 lbs. repeatedly. Perform repetitive movements. Work outside in inclement weather, especially extreme cold, heat and/or wet weather for extensive periods of time. Must be 18 or older. Employer is a drug free workplace. Drug testing is conducted post-hire at the employer's expense and is not part of the interview process. Negative results are required before starting work.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Company Name:

Rodriguez Harvesting, LLC (GA)

Location:

Omega, GA 31775

Worksite

Address:

Terry Clark Field: Bay Rockyford Road, Moultrie, GA 31768

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-26029-603421

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Incentive: Bag bell peppers, per box (12, 3 count bags or 6, 6 count bags). Estimated hourly wage equivalent is $10.52 per hour. Actual piece rate earnings depend on individual factors. Guaranteed minimum of offered hourly wage.

Date Posted:

3/4/2026

Piece Rate Offer

$0.40

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