Job Information
My-T Acres, Inc. Farmworkers & Laborers, crop, nursery in Oakfield, New York
8 Fulltime H-2A Seasonal Jobs Available 04/15/2024- 07/31/2024.
Manually pick/lift/carry stones from fields to truck/loader/woods to clear fields. Cut, chop, and/or pull weeds or vines, pick up wood, sticks, and/or stones from fields or hedgerows.
Manually hand and/or machine plant cabbage plants. May walk behind machine planter and cover transplanted cabbage plugs. May ride mechanical transplanter and load cabbages in planting cups. Assist in the planting of potatoes including but not limited to riding on the potato planter. May help unload potato seed into the potato planter. Farmyard work including raking, picking up sticks and/or leaves from yards. May harvest beets, carrots, and potatoes. Hand weed/hoe weeds from cabbage, beets, beans, carrots, and/or potatoes.
Will ride on carrot/beet harvester to manually remove tops and/or dirt. Will clean and maintain vegetable harvesting equipment. Assist in the minor repair and cleaning of potato harvesting equipment and potato barn equipment. Will ride potato harvester and pick stone clods and bad potatoes.
Manually grade, cut defective potatoes including green potatoes. Workers may grade the potatoes as they are unloaded from trucks that come from the fields into the storage (located on farm) or into customers trucks. Potatoes are graded outside before they are washed and graded inside after they are washed. Workers may also grade potatoes inside the storage area as they come out of storage to be loaded onto customers trucks.
Grade carrots as they are unloaded from farm trucks and into storage (located on the farm). Grade carrots as they are coming out of storage and into bags/totes for customers (located on the farm). Assist in cleaning carrot grading equipment, area and storage. Will hand cut/harvest cabbage or assist in cabbage harvest that is harvested mechanically. Load, unload, carry, hookup, and/or monitor irrigation pipe or systems.
Requirements:
- 3 months of verifiable experience in commercial, conventional farming.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Lifting requirement of 75 lbs.
- Repetitive movements,
- Extensive pushing/pulling, sitting/walking and frequent stooping/bending
- Post-hire drug screen and criminal background check, at the employers expense.
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov. For qualified applicants requiring a Spanish translation of this job order, please email DIPA@labor.ny.gov or call 1-877-466-9757. Please include the applicant name and job order number in your request.