Farmworkers, Laborers

Cedar Crossing Farms, Inc; Uvalda (GA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transport reimbursement

Job summary

H2ajobs in Georgia is hiring general farm laborers to plant, weed, cultivate, harvest, and pack onions and cabbage. You will prepare bundles, load produce, and assist in field operations across multiple tasks as directed by the supervisor.

Work involves walking fields, counting bundles, and loading trucks, with housing and meals provided and occasional transportation assistance. Experience is not required, and workers must be able to work in hot or cold, humid conditions, bending and standing

Qualifications

• Experience wanted: 0 months

Responsibilities

• Employees will perform planting, weeding, cultivating, harvesting, and packing onions and cabbage.
• Harvest, clip, bag, and/or load produce.
• Pull Onion Plants: pull 100 plants, bundle, and bag according to supervisor instructions.
• Plant Onions: place each plant into holes, follow plant distance and distance, and ensure proper placement in pegger holes.
• Walkers count bundles and report quality to supervisor.
• Loader load field bags of onion plants onto trucks for transport.
• Throwing: hand bundles to transplant workers.
• Plant Cabbage: transplant seedlings by hand as directed.
• Harvest Cabbage: pick produce at ground level and handle carefully to avoid damage.
• General Activities During Operations: may operate forklifts, drive a truck, pull weeds, move irrigation pipe, clean and repair housing, and perform field sanitation.
• Housing: Employer-provided housing (including mobile or range).
• Meals: Housing and kitchen facilities provided for workers unable to return home; meals facilities available; weekly voluntary transportation to store for groceries; dormitory-style housing; sex-segregated toilet facilities where needed.
• Transport: Employer will reimburse transportation costs after 50% of contract period if the worker cannot return home.
• Experience wanted: 0 months
• Workers will pull, plant, and load onion plants and cabbage; work in hot/cold/humid weather; bend or stoop to ground level crops; stand for long periods; wear suitable clothing.

Job description

Employees will be expected to perform work activities related to planting, weeding, cultivating, harvesting, and packing onions and cabbage. Workers will be expected to harvest, clip, bag, and/or load produce.

Pull Onion Plants: Workers will pull 100 plants; place them together and put rubber bands around the bundle. According to the maturity of the plants, the supervisor may vary the number of plants per bundle. Workers will cut tops and place bundles into field bags. There are 3,000 plants per field bag. Workers must bundle the correct number of plants and put the correct number of bundles into bags.

Plant Onions: Workers will pick up plant bundles and take off rubber bands. Workers will put one plant into each hole made by the pegger. In most cases a plant bed will be 100 feet long and four rows wide, with plants being 4 inches apart. There will be cases where a plant bed will be 100 feet long and four rows wide with plants being 4.5 inches apart. Before they start a field, workers will be advised what plant distance they will be planting and the correspondent piece rate applicable. Workers must be careful to place the plant all the way into the hole made by the pegger.

Walker: The walkers will walk fields and count bundled bags produced by each worker. They will also examine the quality of onion planting and report to supervisor.

Loader: Workers will load field bags of onion plants onto the truck to be transported to the field where the onions are planted.

Throwing: Workers will give the bundles of onions gathered in the seedbeds to the workers in the fields to be transplanted.

Plant Cabbage: Workers will help transplant cabbage seedlings by hand, according to supervisor's instruction.

Harvest Cabbage: Workers will pick up produce at ground level. Workers must exercise extreme care not to drop the produce at any time during handling.

General Activities During Operations General: All Crops: During field operations, workers may be required to operate forklifts, drive a truck, pull weeds, move irrigation pipe, clean and repair housing, and perform farm and field sanitation.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Housing and kitchen facilities will be provided at no cost to workers who are not reasonably able to return to their place of residence the same day. Employer will furnish free cooking and kitchen facilities to those workers who are entitled to live in the employers' housing so that workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week the employer will offer to provide (on a voluntary basis by the workers) free transportation to assure workers access to the closest store where they can purchase groceries. No charge will be made for bed or cooking utensils and similar items furnished by the employer to workers to whom housing is provided. The housing provided varies according to location and includes dormitory-style buildings. Housing provided will be shared without regard to the gender of the workers. In housing facilities occupied by both male and female workers, sex-segregated toilet facilities will be provided by the employer.

Transport: The Employer will reimburse workers who complete 50 percent of the work contract period and who are not reasonably able to return the same day to their place of residence for the reasonable cost of transportation and subsistence from the place of recruitment to the place of employment

Experience wanted: 0 months

Workers will manually pull, plant, and load onion plants and cabbage. Workers must exercise extreme care not to drop farm produce any time during handling. Able to work in hold, cold and/or humid weather bending or stooping to reach ground level crops, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers should report to work on their own suitable clothing.