Farm Laborer

TURFGRASS/SOD/COTTON/CORN/PEANUTS Job Description The farmworker position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, harvesting, and packing of commercial sod and grass seed; weeding and hoeing of cotton, corn and peanut fields; farm, field and shed maintenance, sanitation, and post-harvest cleanup as well as duties related to the deployment and maintenance of in-field irrigation. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers. Job Specifications Sod: The worker will be expected to perform the various activities associated with growing grass and sod on a commercial turfgrass operation. These tasks will require individuals to work quickly and consistently for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness in the quality of work being completed. Workers will be required to aid in soil preparation by manual and mechanical means for sprigging and seeding, mowing, rolling, cutting, aerating, and stacking of grass on pallets. That includes cleaning fields of rock, roots, limbs, stumps, trees, and debris. Workers will be expected to weed. hoe, propagate, water, fertilize, spray, monitor, trim, cut, roll, stack, load, transport, and discard sod. Workers will be required to load and unload pallets by hand, bag certified grass seed, use both center pivot and traveling gun irrigation systems, operate diesel and electric irrigation pumps, bag sand with shovels, and clean debris from dams and suction lines. Workers will be operating weed eaters, chainsaws, riding mowers, and push mowers. Vehicle and equipment operations may include tractors, gators, forklifts, bobcats, disc, cultivators, mowers, and pick-up trucks. Workers will use tractors to drag, tow and lift sod specific equipment through fields. Workers may use forklifts and bobcats to load and unload rolls of harvested sod the field or shed. Workers will be instructed how to safely operate any of the mentioned vehicles or equipment prior to use. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standard and specifications given by the employer. Cotton/Corn/Peanuts: The worker will be expected to perform the various activities associated with weeding and hoeing cotton/corn/peanut fields. These tasks will require individuals to work quickly and consistently for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness in the quality of work being completed. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer.