H-2A · Agriculture

Farmworker

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Mark Stelly Rice and Crawfish, L.L.C.

Iowa, LA — United States

Job duties

Official text in English.

Temporary, seasonal workers needed for crawfish and rice farm: Job duties include crawfishing in boats, harvesting/catching crawfish, performing crawfishing duties in fields; manually cutting up fish bait, putting out crawfish traps and baiting and checking traps, grading and washing crawfish for shipment; sacking crawfish; stocking crawfish ponds; making repairs to traps as needed; removing traps from pond at end of season. Work in rice fields including field prep, water maintenance; fertilize, plant and harvest crops; driving tractors, equipment and farm trucks; manual shovel work, hoe weeds; spot spray, repair and maintain bins, equip., farm and fences; maintain field levees, roads and shop; load and unload trucks; cut grass; travel between fields required; level rice bins; clean up rice spills at bins.

Requirements

Job involves frequent stooping and exposure to extreme temps must be able to lift and carry sufficient weight to lift, carry and move equipment and material necessary to complete assigned tasks. The Employer will rely on workers' own representations and observations of workers to assess if the workers meet this qualification. Schedule includes one unpaid lunch hour. Base hours offered is 40 hours offered; overtime hours are usually offered during plentiful season and may include an additional 10-40 hours of overtime work depending on the nature of the season.

Housing

Description: Three bedrooms, two bathroom, kitchen, living room, and utility room.

Transportation

The Employer will provide or pay in advance for transportation, and related daily subsistence, for charter bus services, or other modes of transportation (e.g., airplane) to workers, or permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose, and reimburse those workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved for both inbound (to the place of employment to the place from which the worker departed) travel.

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