Job Information
Job Order ID :
NY1487439
# of Positions :
4
Minimum Education Level :
Less than High School
Experience Required :
3 months
Salary :
$17.20 hourly
Duration :
Full Time Seasonal
Shift :
First Shift (Day)
Hours per week:
48
Job Description
4 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/22/2024 - 12/17/2024.
Crops/Commodities:
Christmas Trees and vegetables including but not limited to the following: pumpkins, potatoes, and grains.
Perform manual and mechanized tasks associated with the outdoor production of horticultural products. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, plugs, liners, and other horticultural varieties. Prepare fields soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using hand tools or mechanized equipment rakes, shovels, hoes, tractors, mattocks, brush hooks and or axes. Plant pot seedlings or liners by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Prepare trees for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Hand dig trees and other plants with shovel or tree spade.
Perform general plant maintenance. Irrigate and apply fertilizer or other chemicals. Train, prune, trim, shear, space, transplant and cull trees and or plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Shear trees with proper taper and bud cut angle for quality. Tie position trees and plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Count, inventory, and grade trees. Select trees for cutting according to grade. Cut trees using axe or chainsaw. Drag cut trees from cutting area. Bale trees using tree baler. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twice and or stapes. Pack, label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety. Clean maintain work area.
Plant, cultivate and harvest vegetables. Use farm equipment to cut, pull, dig, thresh, clean, chop, bag, or bundle harvested crops. Load unload harvested vegetables or other materials manually or with mechanized equipment such as conveyors, or hand trucks. Use hand tools including, but not limited to: shovels, hoes and knives. Plant roots, seeds and bulbs. Spread plastic or other ground covering. Clean plastic by hand from ground upon removal. Till soil. Weed and thin plants. Transplant plants by hand. Stake tie plants, trellis prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. Pick, cut, lift, or pull crops. Tie vegetables in bunches. Grade, size and field pack product. Take care to prevent damaging produce and plants. Cut and bale hay and straw for delivery to various locations on the farm.
Requirements:
3 months experience in duties listed
Criminal Background Check
Lifting requirement 60 lbs.
Exposure to extreme temperatures
Extensive sitting or walking
Frequent stooping or bending over
Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov
Company Information
Name :
Country Barn, LLC
Application Information
Email :
By Phone :
Call James D. Stauffer at 7178721554