Date of Need: 3/4/2024 to 10/12/2024 Workers will perform tasks for
various employers as listed on their contract. Greenhouse: Taking
cuttings from mother plants, planting cuttings, bare root plants, and
tissue culture plants into plug trays. Filling plug trays, moving plug
trays from planting warehouse into greenhouse and from one location in
the greenhouse to another location, pruning greenhouse plants, getting
plants ready to ship and loading them into trucks which go to our
customers. Applying fertilizer and watering plants. Ag Equipment
Operator. Field: Receiving and loading/unloading trucks and wagons of
plants. Processing plants, planting plants in our fields, weeding,
irrigation, harvesting. Some workers will be driving tractors and
occasionally we will require employees to be lifting 50-70modules. Work
environment changes with the season and vary from 32F-100F and protected
and controlled climate in a warehouse or barn or a greenhouse as well as
unprotected outside in a large agricultural field. Some experience,
minimum of 1 month, working in agricultural is required. Some benchmarks
that we expect workers, as a team, will be able to fullfil after one
month of working at the mentioned tasks are: *Cutting bare root plants
at 200 plants per hour *Planting bare root plants in the field at 8500
plants per day * Cutting cuttings in the greenhouse at the rate of
250-500 plants per hour * Planting cuttings in the greenhouse at 500
plants per hour, tissue culture plants at 250 per hour *Pulling and
shipping trays at 20 trays per hour * filling modules and staging them
in the field at a group production rate of 2500 modules per 8 hours for
8 worker crew. Farm Equipment Operation: Workers may be required to
operate farm equipment such as tractors during daily operations, as an
incidental activity. Before any worker is required to operate any farm
equipment, workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the
tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a
manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, and
equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating
instructions may result in termination. General Maintenance: Workers
will perform various duties for up keeping of the nursery, greenhouses,
fields, equipment, and buildings. These duties may include painting of
nursery buildings, fence repair, mowing, weed eating, and other general
building and ground maintenance. Instructions and general supervision
will be provided by the farm owner/supervisor or a designated employee.
However, field workers will be expected to perform their duties in a
timely and proficient manner without close supervision. The employer
retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker,
malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able to but does not
demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the
employer to grow a premium quality product. During certain duties,
workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task.
When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other
members of the team to accomplish the task. Full Crop Commitment: This
is regular work, six hours per day, Monday-Friday, and five hours on
Saturday for the full remainder of the period of employment. The worker
agrees to work for assigned employer(s) whenever work is available
during the full remaining period of employment even though work may be
slack at times. The worker understands that if the worker quits or is
terminated for cause prior to the end of the period of employment, the
worker will not receive the 3/4 guarantees and will not receive certain
transportation reimbursements. Excessive tardiness and/or absences will
not be tolerated and will result in termination.