JOB DOES NOT START UNTIL 3/1/2025APPLICANT SHOULD RECEIVE A COPY OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION AND JOB REFERRAL BEFORE CALLING EMPLOYER CONTACT. All workers should be physically able to meet and perform the work outlined in the contract for the entire period of time from 3/1/2025 to 11/30/2025Description:Forage: Duties to include, but not limited to: Soil preparation, operating tillage equipment, cutting equipment. Hauling bales to storage barns / farms that purchase hay.Nursery:Planting: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling planters and planting wagons. Workersmay be required to work on the ground planting trees that are fed through a tractor pulled planter-using shovels. Workerswill be required to dig trees. Workers will also be required to plant trees by hand.Pruning: When pruning, it is vital to prune the unwanted branch while protecting the stem or trunk wood of the tree. Whilepruning trees, workers will receive proper tools for the particular job, i.e., saw, prunes, and hand snips. These tools will bereturned to the employer at the end of the task. The cost of tools destroyed maliciously or lost carelessly will be deductedfrom worker's wages. The supervisor will set a standard or pattern for each orchard and will demonstrate and communicatethis to workers. Workers will be assigned rows of trees and must prune each tree according to the predetermined standard.Workers must remove all resulting material from the trees rendered from performing pruning tasks. When pruning iscomplete on each tree, each worker is required to rake and scatter the resulting brush in the center of the tractor/equipmentrows.Balled and Burlap (B&B) tree production: Workers may be required to work as operators of skid steers with tree spadeattachments or haul out tines. Workers may be required to work on the ground packaging the finished root ball on a treeby stapling burlap with hog ring pliers, tying basket loops with twine, crimpling baskets with pig tail crimpers or tyingbranches with twine.Bare root tree production: Workers may be required to work as operators of skid steers with bare root blade attachments. Workersmay be required to work on the ground tying branches with twine or hauling trees through the field and loading them onto trucks byhand. Workers will be responsible for identifying, budding & grafting bare root trees and seedlings. Workers will also hoe, weed,and grade bare root treeLoading and unloading: Workers may be required to work on flat bed trailers tying B&B trees to the trailer with twine. Workers may berequired to work loading or unloading bare root trees by hand into refrigerated trailers that weight as much as 75 to 100 pounds.Cultivation: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling cultivators, mowers or hilling disks. Watering:Workers may be required to water trees by hand using pumps and hoses.Farm Equipment Operation: Workers will drive tractors, mowers, and may use other greenhouse equipment including flat filler.Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor and other equipment before driving tractor or using othergreenhouse equipment. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, andequipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.General Duties: Duties performed in the field will be sporadic all through the contract due to the various duties, i.e., preparing soil,planting, pruning, cutting, deadheading, pinching, trimming to shape, spacing plants, potting, fertilizing with granular or liquidfertilizer, cleaning work areas, transporting plant materials in the nursery/greenhouse areas, loading and unloading plants and all other duties associated with ornamental plant production. Between harvesting, workers will be required to perform duties to preparecrops for marketing. Workers will also unload pallets from trucks or wagons into fields for transplanting. Worker may unload andrestock for storage.Wages are paid weekly. The employer guarantees to offer a least 3/4 of the hours listed in the contract. 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. If the employer elects to provide meals, a maximum of $15.88 per day may be charged to the employee. The employer will provide the necessary tools, supplies and equipment at no cost to the worker. Workers should be able to bend, stoop and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers should be able to lift from 20 to 75 pounds. Must have 3 months variable experience. Workers may be asked to submit to random drug testing.
