Farmworkers and Laborers

H2ajobs; Delhi (LA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-provided housing

Free meals

Transportation to town/fields

Job summary

H2ajobs in the United States is seeking farm workers for various field tasks, including detasseling seed corn, harvesting, and routine livestock care. Workers will perform ground clearing, plant maintenance, and equipment operation across seed crops and cattle operations.

Housing and meals are provided, with transportation to the fields and nearby town as needed. Applicants should be able to work outdoors, lift up to 100 lbs, and endure long hours in variable weather.

Qualifications

• Experience with outdoor agricultural work is preferred.
• Ability to walk long distances and perform physically demanding tasks.

Responsibilities

• Clear ground of rocks, sticks, and roots by hand.
• Detassel seed corn and remove rogue plants.
• Harvest crops and perform general field maintenance.
• Care for livestock, feed and monitor health as directed.
• Operate basic farm tools and light equipment as needed.
• Assist with loading, unloading, and transportation of supplies and products.

Skills

Farm labor

Detasseling

Livestock handling

Tools

Farm machinery

Job description

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Clear ground of rocks, sticks, & roots by hand. Clear brush & trees with chain saw or related hand tools. May use following equipment: tractor, planter, hipper, row conditioners, disks, field cultivators, ditchers, dirt pans, mowers, spreaders, sprayers, excavators. Workers may also clean and organize the shop, irrigate crops, fix fences, cut, rake, and mow. Workers may also be mixing spray chemicals and loading them into the sprayer and spraying the High Cycle Sprayer. Detasseling seed corn, remove rogue plants, weeds, and volunteer corn plants from seed corn production fields. Detassel Corn - Must be able to walk miles per day while pulling all tassels from plants within the designated female rows, including tassels on tiller/sucker plants. Tassels will be pulled as they emerge and before shedding pollen. Rogueing - Workers will remove all rogues or off-type plants from within and between seed corn rows. Clean-Up Detasseling - Workers will be required to cleanup all tassels or part tassels that remain from plants after detasseling machines have covered the designated female rows. Workers may also be required to husk, sort during harvest. Workers will perform seed corn receiving, silage, sorting, and dryer load out duties as it pertains to harvest seed corn crop and kernels. Drain water from fields with hand tools & shovels when needed. Maintain, do minor repairs, & clean all hand tools & mechanical equipment prior to and after use. Workers may also plant, cultivate, and harvest soybeans and corn. Cattle - Workers will perform any of the following tasks to attend to livestock, such as on-farm: Maintain heated watering system; operate feed wagons. Mix feed and additives, fills feed troughs with feed and water for livestock; Examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; Vaccinate animals by placing vaccine in drinking water or feed using syringes and hypodermic needles; Apply medications to cuts and bruises; Spray livestock with insecticide. Confine livestock in stalls, wash, clip them to prepare them for calving, and assist veterinarian in the delivery of offspring. Bind or clamp testes or surgically remove testes to castrate livestock. Clip identifying notches or symbols on the animal, or brand animal, using branding iron to indicate ownership; Clean livestock stalls and sheds using disinfectant solutions, brushes, and shovels. Maintain farm buildings and equipment for the livestock. General field & fence maintenance - Bail hay, haul hay, & feed cattle. Herd and assist management with veterinary or general maintenance tasks performed on cattle (to include jobs such as assisting with births, administration of shots, and application of ear tags). Assist with loading and unloading of cattle to be shipped or received at the farm. Workers must be able to work with minimum supervision. Workers may be asked to drive farm vehicles. May transport workers to fields, housing, or grocery store.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: The employer will provide housing with a free, convenient, and fully equipped kitchen facilities with refrigerator, stove, pots, pans, utensils and counter space for cooking, that will enable the workers to prepare their own meals. Kitchen facilities will include dishwashing facilities with adequate sinks that have hot and cold water under pressure that are in working conditions to sufficiently prepare three (3) meals a day. Employer will also provide free transportation once per week to/from closest town or city to buy food, banking services, and other necessaries. Transportation will be in an approved bus/van/car/truck at no cost to workers.

Transport: Inbound: Employer will provide and pay for lodging in consulate city, a charter bus/van/car/truck/public transportation or plane (travel insurance may be required), to the place of employment from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer.

Experience wanted: 0 months

Must be 18 years or older. It is recommended that you have experience with Agricultural Equipment and knowledge of Agricultural Field work due to safety reasons related to possible equipment injury, heat stroke possibility, and food safety. The employer may conduct a criminal background check on all new applicants for employment. If driving, workers must have a valid driver's license to operate company vehicles. All tools, supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to the workers. Must assist with all Good Agricultural Practices policies. Most of the workday is spent on one's feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, and lift 10-100 lbs. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold, and other natural elements.