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Fruit Farm Worker
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 37
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 40
- Wage: 18.83 USD / Hour
- Start date: 09/02/2025
- End date: 11/15/2025
- Process date: 07/09/2025 16:05:32
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Manually plant, cultivate and harvest apples. Harvest tart cherries. Grow fruit trees in nursery. Use hand tools such as shovels, towels, hoes, tampers, pruning tools, shear and knives. Duties include: tilling soil and applying fertilizers, transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides). Cleaning, packing, and loading harvested products. Work in nursery which will include: planting, budding, care of nursery trees, grafting, and weeding as directed. Consult trellises, repair fence, general equipment maintenance, and farm buildings or participate in irrigation activities. Clean and maintain irrigation ditches. Operate and tend equipment used in agriculture production (tractors, tractor drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery), plows, discs, sprayers, trailers to plow, harrow and fertilize farm and plant, cultivate, spray, prune, train and harvest crops. Use machinery or tools to mow grass, cut brush and plant young trees. Workers will be expected to be able to operate farm equipment, with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, crops, trees, facilities and equipment. Failure to comply with operating and safety standards may result in termination. Inform farmer or farm managers of crop progress. Identify plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers. Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields or costs. Pick apples and/or tart cherries. All fruit is to be handled with care to avoid bruising. Apples injured during picking shall not exceed 1 percent (WNY) for fresh and 1 percent (WNY) for processing. Productivity must be at least 4 bins (80 bushels) fresh market and/or 5 bins (100 bushels) processing fruit per day. Workers are expected to work at least the number of days and hours specified. Depending on weather, crop or other conditions, workers may be requested, not required, to work up to seven days per week, and up to 12 hours per day. Employer will furnish to workers, without cost, all tools and equipment required in the performance of the duties assigned. Workers should report to work in their own clothing, which includes raincoat, insulated coat, boots, gloves and eye protection. Clothing is not a tool to do the job. Field temperatures may range from 0 to 90+ degrees (with possible wet morning conditions and possible snow and rain). Workers referred to against this order must have a minimum of 3-months experience in performing tasks described in the order. The employer will provide 1 day of training and/or allow 1 day of work for worker to reach production standards if applicable. The employer assures that workers hired under this order who will be handling pesticides will be provided appropriate training. Forty-two (42) pound lifting requirement. Workers must be able to understand/communicate in basic English.