H-2A · Agriculture

Farmworker

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

DBA RH Farms

Ragley, LA — United States

Job duties

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The seasonal agricultural worker will prepare fields for planting; attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, and harvesters to tractors using bolts and hand tools; operate tractors, planters, sprayers, seed drills, manure spreaders, combines, irrigation equipment, and other farm machinery; perform planting, weeding, spraying, cultivating, and harvesting activities; irrigate soil using portable pipes or ditch systems and maintain irrigation ditches, pipes, and pumps; load and unload crops and other agricultural materials manually or using conveyors, forklifts, transfer augers, and hand trucks; load hoppers, containers, and conveyors to feed machines using forklifts, augers, suction gates, shovels, and pitchforks; guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines and remove diseased or rotten products; manipulate equipment controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms; observe and listen to machinery during operation to detect malfunctions; perform routine repairs and maintenance on agricultural equipment; feed and water livestock, monitor food and water supplies, mix feed, additives, and medications in prescribed portions, and order and distribute feed using trucks, tractors, and other equipment; examine livestock to detect illness, injury, disease, or abnormal weight gain; move livestock, agricultural equipment, and other farm materials between locations manually or using vehicles; and inspect, maintain, and perform routine repairs on agricultural equipment, machinery, livestock pens, yards, fences, and farm buildings.

Requirements

Requires three (3) months of previous verifiable experience performing the duties described in this job order. Job requires exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures, extensive pushing and pulling, extensive sitting and walking, frequent stooping and bending, and repetitive movements. No driver's license is required.

Housing

Family housing not available. Housing will be clean & meet applicable Fed, State &local housing standards. Workers must maintain neat & clean housing. Housing/utilities are provided at no cost to workers who are unable to return to place of residence the same day. If both male & female workers are hired: separate toilet, bathing and sleeping rooms will be provided.

Transportation

The employer will pay the worker for reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad to the place of employment (inbound/outbound). The employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved.

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