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Tractor: Drive and control farm equipment to till, plant, cultivate, mow, and harvest crops. Many operations such as maintenance and or repair require good physical ability and knowledge. Workers may ride equipment such as irrigation tape injectors\ and or plastic mulch laying equipment. Other job duties include: Harvest trailers, loading and unloading of seed, plants, materials and chemicals by hand or forklifts. Adjust, maintain, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions. Multiple daily inspections of equipment or facilities to determine safety, condition, and maintenance needs. Lay irrigation tape, burn, spray, pull, build and maintain ditches by hand, tractor, and loader. Furrow irrigation preparation and maintenance of head and tail ditches, such as rowbuck, blade, and hand operated shovel when necessary. Mixing of specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, bottles, buckets, water soluble packets, and seed into planter, sprayer, or mixing equipment. Prepare materials or solutions for application, utilization of supplied personal protection equipment per label instructions. May operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, trucks, irrigation pumps, loaders, forklifts, hand trucks, company vehicles, atv, trailers, man lifts, fuel tanks, water tanks, water trucks, chemical tank trailers, propane tank and harvest equipment. Manipulate controls, monitors, touch screens, to safely operate agricultural equipment. Operate equipment while observing and monitoring of workers riding equipment while transplanting, laying irrigation tubing, plastic mulch, burning and spraying ditches, planting, cultivating, tilling, pulling plastic mulch or tape. Load hoppers, totes, buckets, conveyors, augers to feed machines with products, using tractors, loaders, forklifts, transfer augers, belts, buckets, and shovels. Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus, weed growth, and diseases by hand, pull type, and self-propelled sprayers. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, cultivators, mowers, shredders, rippers, blades, etc, both pull type, link mounted, and power take off driven implements. Operate towed, integrated, or link mounted machines while planting, fertilizing, dusting, burning, and spraying crops. Walk beside or riding on machines while planting, tilling, harvesting or post-harvest cleaning of fields. Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, fuel, or farms workers within the farm.\ Weigh containers, record weights, counts of seed, crops, containers, supplies, chemicals, products being applied, planted, hauled, stored, harvested and transferred. Record, report and turning information into supervisor. Must be able to read and\ execute written work orders, fill out information and return forms to supervisors per shift. All work is to be performed safely and in accordance to regulation, and company policies. Proper personal protection must always be worn. Work is conducted day\ and or night shifts.

Watermelon Cutter: The Cutter will walk through the field bending down to bed level. Once at bed level, the cutter will determine melons that are ripe, and using a company-supplied knife workers will cut the melon from the vine. After cutting the melon from the vine, workers will place the melon in the furrow or on the belt. Workers will move through the field using the same procedure as they approach each melon. Equipment supplied by the Employer includes gloves and a cutting knife.

Box Maker: Workers will be responsible for placing cartons on the box machine, refilling glue container and insuring boxes are delivered to the conveyors. Workers must keep ace with the rest of the crew.

Field 10 Pallet Forklift Operator: Workers will operate a 10 Pallet forklift to unload empty bins from flatbed trailers, place them on the ground and load full\ bins onto flatbed trailers as directed and trained by Supervisory Personnel.

Broccoli harvest consists of: Cutters, Bunchers, Packers, Set off, Carton makers. Cutters: A team of up to 14 workers will walk behind a harvest machine for different hours throughout the day. With a knife in hand hand, workers will cut a broccoli plant at\ different sizes of stem and head size. Once a plant is selected by size and quality, workers will cut plant with knife and then peel off excess leaves until the stem is clean. The stalk and head size will be determined by Supervisor.

Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon Cutter: The Cutter will be responsible for walking through the field, bending down, and locating a package ready\ melon.

Work is to be done for long periods of time in the field, when plants may be wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers ability to perform the job.\ Workers must be able to perform the required work with or without reasonable accommodations.\ Must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing