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Anticipated period of employment: from 04/05/2024 to 11/01/2024.

Three months of vegetable farm experience required. Experience should include proper techniques of pruning, stalking, suckering, tying crops, including greenhouse work.

Transplant crops by either riding on the back of a trans-planter and feeding transplants carefully through fingers of the trans-planter that places the plant into the ground and covers the root of the plant with soil, or by walking and carrying trays through assigned rows in the field while bending and stooping to carefully place the transplants into pre-dug holes and covering roots with soil. Manually harvest tomatoes by pulling tomatoes of the correct size and maturity from the vine, placing into bucket and carrying full buckets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows. Full buckets weighing approximately 35 lbs. will then be lifted and dumped into bins. Vine-ripe tomatoes will then be graded and sorted into individual RPC bins based on color and size before being stacked onto trailers in the field. Stems will be removed from harvested tomatoes. Workers will not break skin of tomato, drop tomato, or leave any appropriate product on the vine during harvest. Peppers, squash, zucchini, eggplant and cucumbers will be manually harvested by either picking into baskets, carrying full baskets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows, and dumping into bins, or by picking and placing sorted produce into boxes, and stacking full boxes onto the trailers. Lay, tuck and/or remove plastic. Clean plastic of debris. Participate in irrigation activities including setting up, repairing, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment. Manually pull weeds and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie, prune, sucker, thin and prune crops, as instructed by supervisor. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives. Till soil. See ETA 790 for a complete job description.

Interested candidates should contact their local State Workforce Office to receive a copy of the ETA790 and applicable attachments. Workers should be fully apprised by their local employment office of the terms, conditions, and nature of employment prior to referral. Once they received a copy of the ETA 790/790A Employer conducts interviews by phone at time of inquiry or within a reasonable time thereafter. Interviews conducted at no cost to applicants, whether via phone or in-person. Contact Employer Monday through Friday during the hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET. If unavailable, contact employer 's agent during the hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET.. Employer Agent: AgWorks H2, LLC (a MAS Labor company)

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