Job Information
Idaho Employer Farmworkers in Caldwell, Idaho
This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2310322
Dates of Need: 2/26/2025-10/31/2025.
GENERAL CONDITIONS: Field work begins at assigned time shortly after daylight. Work may be performed during light rain and in high humidity and in freezing or high heat temperatures. The worker may be required to work in the orchard when trees are wet with dew/rain and should have suitable clothing for variable weather conditions. Worker may be required to lift or load objects continually up to 50lbs.
The Worker may never ride on agricultural equipment not designed for work related riding purposes or any other non-passenger intended equipment unless instructed and authorized by the employer or supervisor to do so. All work related injuries must be immediately reported to the crew leader, foreman, or supervisor. Workers compensation claims may be presented to any medical provider, through your employer or state agency if applicable.
Full Growing Season Commitment: The worker agrees to be available for work and perform the assigned work for the assigned employer through the full period of employment in accordance with sections A.3 and A.4 of the ETA 790.
Light Duty: Workers restricted to light duty work by their physician may be offered light duty jobs in accordance with State Law and/or agency guidance.
Training: There will be a demonstration period to familiarize workers with job specification and to demonstrate proper methods and other crop specific issues.
Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, and fi eld crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.\ Specific Job Requirements:\ **General Farm Labor Work **\ This will include the following activities:\ Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops and/or farm grounds, including the utilization of hand tools to remove weeds.\ Perform general cleanup of farm areas.\ Manually install and remove irrigation drip tape fittings, pipes, and main line.\ Identify and fi x leaks in drip irrigation systems.\ Activities related to onion harvest:\ o Remove dirt clods, weeds and debris from harvester, move onion in front of harvester.\ o Hand harvest onions, place onions in bags and lay in fi eld to cure.\ o Gather bags of onions off the fi elds and dump them into bins.\ o Sort sacks after harvest.\ Activities related to pepper planting and harvest:\ o Hand harvest pepper crops, manually pulling peppers from plants.\ o Move and transport fl ats of pepper plants.\ o Ride on transplanter and drop in pepper plants.\ o Stamp in planted transplants.\ o Field pack peppers in bins and tray and dump onto belt.\ o Remove dirt clods, weeds and any other debris from belt.\ Activities related to squash harvest:\ o Utilize hand tools to cut squash from plants.\ o Place squash on belts and load into bins for transportation.\ Activities related to sweet corn harvest:\ o Hand harvest sweet corn, manually pulling corn ears from stalks.\ o Place corn ears on belts or in bins for transportation.\ Activities related to the planting and cultivation of hops:\ o Remove and Install poles and attach all wires and cables and repair as needed.\ o While in a lift above ground manually attach twine to trellis.\ o Place metal clips in the ground and affix twine to clips.\ o Fill water tanks as needed to soak hop twine.
Must be able to lift and/or load 50lbs. Work may take place when temperatures are below freezing and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. May require extensive pulling and/or pushing of tools, wheelbarrows, ruit containers. May require worker to sit and/or walk for extensive periods of time while sorting, picking, examining, weeding, transporting, pruning. Workers will be required to stoop and/or bend over while performing farm labor such as weeding, irrigating, pruning, picking, removing debris. There will be repetitive movements while performing most of the farm labor duties, for example picking, sorting, pruning, shoveling, weeding.
