H-2A · Agricultura

Farm Laborer

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Mitchem Farms, LLC (2026.2)

Vale, NC — EUA

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General farm work will include preparing fields, seeding beds, applying plastic to growing beds, manually planting, cultivating, and harvesting vegetables, fruits, and field crops. Using hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives to support agricultural activities, including pruning berry crops. Duties may include tilling soil, transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; may assemble/repair trellises and repair or maintain farm buildings and participate in irrigation activities. Workers with a clean MVR and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be requested to operate employer-owned trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to haul tools, supplies, crops, and transport workers (whether on or off farm) to and from the worker housing to the farm properties and occasionally around the farm properties during the workday including on public roads to reach the fields where work will be performed; and/or may transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as needed basis. No applicants or workers will be rejected for not possessing a driver’s license or who may be unwilling to drive company vehicles. Such duties are completely optional and may be declined by the worker at his or her sole discretion. Irrigation work will include setting up drip/overhead irrigation systems, placing or pulling plastic, and operating irrigation equipment. Harvest Activities: Melons: Hand harvest placed in bins, short melons by size Butternut Squash: Hand harvest and places in bins and bushels. Sort squash by grade and size. Sweet corn: handpick and place in 5-dozen sack. Blackberries and blueberries: grade, and field pack blackberries (95%) and blueberries (5%) by hand. Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to pick ripe blueberries and blackberries by hand without bruising or damaging the fruit or bush. Workers must take care to pick bushes clean of all berries of the correct color and size that are suitable for shipment to fresh fruit markets, as instructed by their supervisor. Green or red berries must not be picked. When picking blueberries, workers will carefully place picked berries into one gallon/six-pound buckets or clamshell containers and carry them to the inspection location according to supervisors’ instructions. Workers will place full clamshell containers in flats at the end of the rows; carry full buckets and full clamshell flats to the trailer in the field. Buckets and clamshells will be inspected for quality and weighed. Blackberries will be picked, graded, and packed; workers will carefully place picked berries into buckets with a net weight of 30 pounds or clamshell containers and carry them to the inspection location according to supervisors’ instructions. Workers will place full clamshell containers in boxes at the end of the rows; carry full buckets and full boxes to the trailer in the field where fruit is inspected for quality and weight.

Requisitos

We require two months of recent and verifiable experience within the past two years working in diversified crops, handling manual and mechanical tasks, including agricultural field work. In order to perform this kind of work, workers must be able to walk, bend, reach, push, pull, and lift and carry up to 30 lbs. for prolonged periods of time and have hand dexterity. Work is outside in extremely wet, humid, hot and dirty conditions. This position requires a minimum of two months for the employee to get a full understanding of the job and responsibilities. Must be able to understand work & safety instructions in English or Spanish, the languages spoken and written in the workplace. Workers may occasionally drive a pickup truck with capacity of 2 passengers.

Moradia

Housing includes full-kitchen and laundry machines at no cost to the workers. The employer will offer housing, bedding (mattresses, blankets, sheets, pillows and pillowcases), storage for personal belongings, and utilities at no cost to workers recruited from beyond normal commuting distances who are unable to return to their place of residence on a daily basis.

Transporte

The employer will provide workers with inbound and outbound transportation as set forth in Section I. paragraph 7(A) and (B). The employer will pay for charter bus services or other modes of transportation to the group of workers or permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose, including common carrier transportation.

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