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Roba's Tree Farm Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery in N. Abington Twp., Pennsylvania
8 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 3/04/2024 - 12/20/2024.
Crops/Commodities: nursery stock, Christmas trees, apples, pumpkins, gourds, corn, hay, straw. This job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable prior experience working in a tree nursery, Christmas tree and or tree fruit farm, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Nursery: Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers as well as perform additional mechanized activities with accuracy, efficiency, preferably including ball and burlap (B&B) field harvesting.
Manual tasks related to the growing of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: preparing fields for planting by clearing cull stock, brush and debris; planting seedlings or liners by hand including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter; digging, loading, unloading or transplanting bare-root nursery stock; straightening, tying, pruning and shearing trees and shrubs; cutting, pulling or removing and mowing weeds or grass; moving irrigation equipment; spraying herbicides and insecticides and applying fertilizer. While fertilizing workers will be expected to pick up and carry 60 pounds of fertilizer and distribute it with a 4-ounce cup. Accurate visual calibration and proper placement of fertilizer is required.
Requirements:
- 3 months experience in fruit and vegetable duties listed
- Lifting requirement 60 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive pushing or pulling
- 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