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3 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/10/2024 - 12/10/2024.

Crops/Commodities: trees, grain, hay. This job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable agricultural field work employment experience, preferably on a tree nursery. Workers will be expected to perform manual jobs as well as equipment operation with accuracy and efficiency beginning with planting through harvest. Plant, cultivate and weed as needed. Sprays herbicides and insecticides and applies fertilizer. Helps with irrigation, loads product, cleans around barns. Operates farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest and store crops. Operates grain carts in the field in loading of trucks. Under supervision, assists with servicing, cleaning and maintenance of trucks, trailers and machinery. Bushhogging fields; disking; aerating; seeding (using mechanical drills and seeders); fertilizing; weed spraying with spray rig; mowing, tedding, raking, baling, and stacking hay; and operating grain carts. Upon occasion workers may be required to dig ditches and install water lines to sheds, barns, stock tanks and other structures on the farm. Clear debris from field and clean maintain farm buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas. Lift, carry, and load unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency.

Workers will perform heavy manual field work including but not limited to planting, watering, spraying, cultivating, harvesting cutting and baling trees on a tree farm. Selects and tags trees for cutting according to markings or size, species and grade and fells trees using hand tools. Drags cut trees from cutting area, runs trees through tree baler and loads trees onto trucks for transport, or wrap trees with twine. May drive trucks or tractors to transport trees from the field to central loading area. Remove cull stock, brush, ferns, vines, stumps, rocks, debris and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks and brush hooks and axes. Plant seedlings or liners by hand using mattock or dibble (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter). Load, unload or transplant bare-root nursery stock. Straighten, tie, prune and shear tops and limb tips from trees, as specified by supervisor, to control growth, increase limb density and improve shape.

Requirements:

• 3 months experience in 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