Job Information
NJ Employer Farmworkers & Laborer in Oakfield, New York
Anticipated period of employment: 04/01/2025 to 07/31/2025
All applicants must have 3 months experience hand harvesting a perishable crop. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers.
Crops: Beans, beets, cabbages, carrots, corn, green beans, oats, potatoes, wheat, sweet corn, rye, onions. Manually pick/lift/carry stones from fields to truck/loader/woods to clear fields. Cut, chop, and/or pull weeds or vines, pick up wood, sticks, and/or stones from fields or hedgerows. Manually hand and/or machine plant cabbage or onion plants. May walk behind machine planter and cover transplanted cabbage or onion plugs. May ride mechanical transplanter and load cabbage or onion plants in planting cups. Assist in the planting of potatoes including but not limited to riding on the potato planter. May help unload potato seed into the potato planter. Farmyard work including raking, picking up sticks and/or leaves from yards. May harvest beets, carrots, and potatoes. Hand weed/hoe weeds from cabbage, beets, beans, carrots, corn, sweet corn, onions and/or potatoes. Will ride on carrot/beet harvester to manually remove tops and/or dirt. Will clean and maintain vegetable harvesting equipment. Hand harvest and/or assist in the mechanical harvest of onions. Grade and/or sort onions. Manually pack onions into totes, bags, crates, or trucks. May walk behind harvester and hand pick onions that were missed by harvester. Assist in the repair and cleaning of potato harvesting equipment and potato barn equipment. Will ride potato harvester and pick stone clods and bad potatoes. Manually grade, cut defective potatoes including green potatoes. Workers may grade the potatoes as they are unloaded from trucks that come from the fields into the storage (located on farm) or into customers trucks. Potatoes are graded outside before they are washed and graded inside after they are washed. Workers may also grade potatoes inside the storage area as they come out of storage to be loaded onto customers trucks See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description.
Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract they may call and/or email the employer to schedule an interview Monday- Thursday from 10am to 4pm. Referred to JO NY1523287 as the Job is in connection with the NJ number
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