Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop
Employer: Legacy Labor, Inc.
Location: Bluff City, AR
Workers needed: 29
Pay: $13.95/hour
Season: Nov 16, 2026 – Mar 5, 2027
Experience: 1 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Crops: Evergreen Seedlings, Hardwood Seedlings
General overview of work task including Ag equipment operator, Lifting/Packing/Loading Pine Trees, Lifting/Packing/Loading Hardwood Trees, Cleaning of vehicles / tractors / equipment / buildings / storage areas using cleaning equipment / sprayers / wash buckets / cleaning chemicals. Moving irrigation pipe / risers / valves to and from field to storage piles. Assisting with irrigation leak repair – help with moving dirt and supplies as needed. Repairing fence if and as needed – barbed wire and hog panel fencing on tposts. Inventory of seedling crops using wire racks to count seedlings and document on paper. Cleaning / removing limbs, leaves, debris from yards, grounds, cemetery located on site, and other areas on site as needed. Mowing / weed eating on site as needed.
Going through each field to clean up left over seedlings / trash as needed. Weeding of crops / field areas by hand using buckets –walking up and down beds and pulling weeds as needed. Mowing / weed eating around fields, irrigation lines, fences, buildings, grounds. Installing bird netting on select hardwoods. Installing rebar in the field. String install on rebar. Laying out and stitching bird netting. Regular checks of installed netting and repairs as needed. Assisting with planting hardwoods – help with seed bags on back of planter – keeping hopper full of seed and assisting with seed transport from cold storage to field. Cleaning of equipment, buildings, grounds, fields, as needed. Seedling inventory. Bush hogging using PTO powered mower and tractor. Assisting with various cultural practices as needed. Spraying pesticides using backpack type sprayers. Assisting with discing, chisel plowing, cultivation activities in fields as needed. Assisting with undercutting / lateral pruning crop as needed. Repairing fences. Removing /installing irrigation pipe, valves, risers, main lines as needed. Assisting with irrigation leak repair duties as needed. Cutting /removing fallen tree limbs / debris from facility locations.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employers will furnish free cooking and kitchen facilities to those workers who are entitled to live in the employers' housing so that workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week the employers will offer to provide (on a voluntary basis by the workers) free transportation to assure workers access to the closest store where they can purchase groceries. In the event kitchen facilities are not available, or become unavailable during the season, workers staying in employer housing will be provided 3 meals per day at the current subsistence rate as posted in the federal register.
Workers staying in employer provided housing that does not have kitchen facilities to prepare their own meals will be provided 3 meals per day at the current subsistence rate posted in the federal register. If this rate changes after the start of the contract, workers will be notified of the updated rate.
Transport: (a) Incoming: At the filing of this job order that is not known based on appointment availability at the consulate. The Employer will not advance transportation and subsistence costs to workers for transportation to or from the place of employment. Employer will provide or reimburse workers as outlined in the regulations the most economical cost of transportation subsistence costs during travel. See contract for additional details.
Experience wanted: 1 months
1 month experience working as a farmworker. On-site-training for curtain task. Applicants must furnish affirmative job references from recent employers operating comparable operations establishing acceptable previous experience. Must be physically able to meet and perform all job specifications stated in job order. Must be able to work in the hot humid weather for extended periods of time. Workers are subject to random drug testing at no cost to the employee. All drug testing will occur after the worker begins his or her employment and is not a part of the interview process. Failing or refusing a drug test will result in immediate termination.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE POLICY: This employer will strive to provide a safe and healthful work environment, free of substance abuse, for the protection of our associates, employees and visitors. The use, possession or being under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol during working time is prohibited.
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