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West Virginia Employer Farm Labor in Terra Alta, West Virginia
Temporary full-time farmworker positions, starting April 29, 2024 until December 10, 2024. Total of 40 hours per week, with 8 hour days Monday-Wednesday, 0 hours Thursday, 8 hours Friday and Saturday. Hours-7:00am to 3:00pm. Applicants must have minimum of 3 months experience working on a vegetable farm. Job requirements would be overall farm duties. Prepping the fields for planting with plowing with the tillers, rock removal, and weed removal. Seeding both directly into the fields along with seeding into seeding trays. Harvesting plants as they are ready, washing the produce, and neatly packaging them into its containers for shipping. Netting the fields with row covers when needed for pests. Setting up the watering systems from the irrigation through the fields as needed depending upon the crops and the weather. Overall clean up and maintenance of equipment and working areas. Farm Labor is required to bend over many hours out of the day for weeding, planting, prepping, and cultivating the soil. Harvesting produce requires lifting and bending over with buckets of produce. Often requires getting wet and dirty in many different weather conditions. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Housing will be provided at no charge to workers (both H-2A and workers in corresponding employment) who cannot reasonably return to their usual residence at the end of the work day. The worker's housing has a full kitchen. Workers with a state or international driver's license will be provided a car to go purchase groceries and other household essentials. Workers without a license will be provided a ride to the grocery store on the weekend. Potential applicants will be considered by the experience of similar job duties and their standing within the community, ie. clean record and good references. Any accepted applications will be followed up with a phone interview. Then acceptable applicants will need a minimum of 4 favorable references which two of will need to be past employment referrals. Email applications will be accepted anytime. Phone interviews are conducted from 1-4 Monday through Thursday