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Farm Worker
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 325
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 40
- Wage: 14.83 USD / Hour
- Start date: 09/01/2025
- End date: 11/10/2025
- Process date: 06/20/2025 12:49:07
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Crops: Sweet Potatoes Work involves all duties associated with planting, growing, cultivating, and harvesting sweet potatoes. Workers will cut planting slips and place in container according to instructions; ride transplanter and plant sweet potato plants; load/repair planting boxes. Workers will use care when working with potato knife. Workers will walk along row that has been previously plowed. Workers will drop potato slips into ground and cover back up with dirt. Workers will remove weeds manually either by hand or with a hoe. Workers will cut and groom potato plants. Workers will stoop, bend and kneel to pick up sweet potatoes using hands and fingers to dig out unexposed potatoes. Workers may grade in the field separating #1's and #2's into separate 5/8 field hampers. Canners, when harvested, will be placed into a separate bin. Damaged or diseased potatoes will not be harvested. Full hampers weighing up to 35 lbs. will be carried to truck row to be loaded onto truck or trailer. Workers will be required to stay on their assigned row. Workers may also be required to wash the sweet potatoes and get them ready for sale. Workers may be required to operate tractors, trucks and other farm equipment during field operations as an incidental activity in the production of crops. Workers will be instructed in safety and operation of the tractors, trucks and other equipment before operating. Tractors and trucks should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination. In addition, workers may be required to perform variable tasks relating to crop production such as the following: irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, weeding, cleaning and repairing farm buildings, seed beds, racks, grounds and other tasks related to general farming. Work is to be done for long periods of time. Workers will assist in loading trucks with product weighing up to and including 75 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet for long periods of time.