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Ted Brainard Farm Worker / Ted Brainard in Somerset, Kentucky
JOB DOES NOT START UNTIL March 05, 2025.APPLICANT SHOULD RECEIVE A COPY OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION AND JOB REFERRAL BEFORE CALLING THE CONTACT. Workers should be physically able to meet and perform the work outlined in the contract for the entire period of time from 03/05/2025 to 11/12/2025. Workers must be able to lift 40 to 75 pounds for extended periods of time. Wages are paid weekly. The employer guarantees to offer a least 3/4 of the hours listed and pay the adverse effect wage rate Worker's compensation insurance will be provided. The employer must provide free housing and three meals a day or furnish free convenient cooking kitchen facilities to all workers who are not reasonably able to return to their residence the same day. Blueberry Harvesting & Packing-Workers will be harvesting blueberries according to color, firmness and ripeness; The workers will be riding, pruning, weeding, hoeing, cleaning, sorting, stacking, boxing, carrying, picking, dumping, folding, grading, sweeping, selecting, labeling, manually changing and dumping lugs, washing and sanitizing blueberries and preparing for market. Work is in inclement weather conditions including extremely hot, humid, cold and/or rainy weather. Workers will pick the ripe blueberries off the bush by grasping the blueberries between their forefinger and thumbnail, then lightly pulling and gently twisting the fruit off the bush and letting the blue berries roll into the palm of the hand. The blue berries will then be placed in a harvesting bucket being careful not to overfill the container. The filled bucket will be taken to the nearest trailer where it will be dumped. The worker will then get their harvesting bucket back and start the process again. Workers will cover blueberries with netting to keep birds and other insects and wildlife from eating the berries and help prevent bird droppings on blueberries. Workers will repair farm buildings, fences, and other structures using hand tools, such as shovels, and tampers. Soil samples will be taken and fertilizer will be applies accordingly. After harvest season workers will remove dead blueberry bushes and plant new blueberry bushes. Mulch will need to be applied to established and new bushes protect blueberry bushes thru the winter months.