Farmworkers, Laborers
Employer: Cedar Crossing Farms, Inc
Location: Uvalda, GA
Workers needed: 19
Pay: $12.57/hour
Season: Oct 19, 2026 – Dec 28, 2026
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Employees will be expected to perform work activities related to planting, weeding, cultivating, harvesting, and packing onions and cabbage. Workers will be expected to harvest, clip, bag, and/or load produce.
Pull Onion Plants: Workers will pull 100 plants; place them together and put rubber bands around the bundle. According to the maturity of the plants, the supervisor may vary the number of plants per bundle. Workers will cut tops and place bundles into field bags. There are 3,000 plants per field bag. Workers must bundle the correct number of plants and put the correct number of bundles into bags.
Plant Onions: Workers will pick up plant bundles and take off rubber bands. Workers will put one plant into each hole made by the pegger. In most cases a plant bed will be 100 feet long and four rows wide, with plants being 4 inches apart. There will be cases where a plant bed will be 100 feet long and four rows wide with plants being 4.5 inches apart. Before they start a field, workers will be advised what plant distance they will be planting and the correspondent piece rate applicable. Workers must be careful to place the plant all the way into the hole made by the pegger.
Walker: The walkers will walk fields and count bundled bags produced by each worker. They will also examine the quality of onion planting and report to supervisor.
Loader: Workers will load field bags of onion plants onto the truck to be transported to the field where the onions are planted.
Throwing: Workers will give the bundles of onions gathered in the seedbeds to the workers in the fields to be transplanted.
Plant Cabbage: Workers will help transplant cabbage seedlings by hand, according to supervisor’s instruction.
Harvest Cabbage: Workers will pick up produce at ground level. Workers must exercise extreme care not to drop the produce at any time during handling.
General Activities During Operations General: All Crops: During field operations, workers may be required to operate forklifts, drive a truck, pull weeds, move irrigation pipe, clean and repair housing, and perform farm and field sanitation.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Housing and kitchen facilities will be provided at no cost to workers who are not reasonably able to return to their place of residence the same day. Employer 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 employer 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. No charge will be made for bed or cooking utensils and similar items furnished by the employer to workers to whom housing is provided. The housing provided varies according to location and includes dormitory-style buildings. Housing provided will be shared without regard to the gender of the workers. In housing facilities occupied by both male and female workers, sex-segregated toilet facilities will be provided by the employer.
Transport: The Employer will reimburse workers who complete 50 percent of the work contract period and who are not reasonably able to return the same day to their place of residence for the reasonable cost of transportation and subsistence from the place of recruitment to the place of employment
Experience wanted: 0 months
Workers will manually pull, plant, and load onion plants and cabbage. Workers must exercise extreme care not to drop farm produce any time during handling. Able to work in hold, cold and/or humid weather bending or stooping to reach ground level crops, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers should report to work on their own suitable clothing.
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