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Horticultural Worker
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 2
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 40
- Wage: 13.78 USD / Hour
- Start date: 04/06/2026
- End date: 11/21/2026
- Process date: 02/18/2026 11:21:12
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Crops/Commodities: sod, soybeans, wheat, pumpkins, blueberries, corn. Primary duties (performed the majority of workdays): Sod: Performs any combination of the following tasks: prepares soil and growth medium, hauls and spreads topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, lime and other soil conditions on turf areas. Digs, rakes, screens soil. Fills tanks with water, handles irrigation equipment. Sows grass seed and plants plugs of sod; unrolls and places sod. Operates mowers, chain saws, forklifts and sod cutters. Cuts, rolls and stacks sod. Loads, unloads trucks. When work in sod is not available workers may be offered other general agricultural duties associated with sod farming, including building and equipment maintenance, repairing fence and similar tasks, stacking pallets and picking rocks/stones. Soybeans, Wheat: Performs a variety of primarily manual tasks associated with grain and oilseed crop production: plant, cultivate and weed as needed. Sprays herbicides and insecticides and applies fertilizer. Helps with irrigation, loads product, cleans around barns. Under supervision, operates farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest and store crops. Operates grain carts in the field in loading/unloading of trucks. Under supervision, assists with servicing, cleaning and maintenance of trucks, trailers and machinery. Upon occasion workers may be required to dig ditches and install water lines to sheds, barns, stock tanks and other structures on the farm. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Blueberries: Planting and mechanical harvesting of blueberries, as well as manual picking/sorting blueberries. Tasks include irrigation and mulching, fertilizing, soil amendment, pruning and spraying. Pumpkins: Plant, cultivate and harvest pumpkins. Workers must be physically able to perform heavy lifting. Considerable stooping and kneeling is required. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. Corn: Plant, cultivate, harvest corn. Work is to be done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may perform duties including boxing, weighing, loading/unloading and installation of product. Workers may assist in loading/unloading of trucks and lifting to a height of 5 plus feet. Rolls of sod may weigh up to 75 pounds plus or minus depending on moisture content. Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers' ability to perform the job. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day, working in fields. Temperatures may range from 10 to 100 F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. Employer-paid post-hire random, upon suspicion, and post-accident drug testing required. Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators and other equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and possessing or able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses may transport other workers to and from employer-provided housing directly to worksites each day and may transport workers around farms during the workday. Workers do not deliver to customers.