Farmworker: Diversified (45-2092.00)
Employer: Tim Fisher Farm
Location: Colt, AR
Workers needed: 16
Pay: $16.80/hour
Season: Aug 24, 2026 – Nov 21, 2026
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Crops: Rice, Soybeans, Cotton, Corn, Sweet Potato, Watermelons, Pumpkins, Cantaloupes.
Workers will plant, cultivate, and harvest crops named in this job order. Workers will be responsible for preparation of field beds, assisting in installation of drip irrigation and black plastic. Workers will operate various farm equipment including trucks and tractors. Workers will maintain equipment, clean equipment and shop and winterize equipment. Workers will haul crops to storage sheds, use mowing equipment to maintain farm roads & right of ways. Use ladders to maintain the walls of the potato sheds. Lay poly pipe & walk behind the tractor. Will maintain all grain and potato storage to keep it pest free. Workers may also perform duties as a working crew leader. Workers will perform these duties while working with the other seasonal workers.
Perform all tasks involved in the growing, harvesting, packing, and storage of crops. This includes sweet potatoes, bedding, cutting slips, transplanting slips, pulling and/or chopping weeds and harvesting with the use of mechanical harvesting equipment, field grading sweet potatoes. This also includes for other row crops (soybeans, milo, corn, rice,), watermelons and pumpkins, pulling and/or chopping weeds. Workers must notify supervisor/employer of any material issues. Workers must report any safety and/or food violations to their supervisor immediately.
Field Work: Workers will roll out and remove plastic on sweet potato beds. Roll out cloth and remove cloth from sweet potato beds. Workers will cut sweet potato slips, stack slips into cartons and load cartons onto a truck. Workers will use mechanical sweet potato harvesting equipment to harvest sweet potatoes.
The following definitions are provided to assist all workers with the employer’s work standards. Work/Job Specification Definitions: a) Sloppy: not careful or neat: showing a lack of care, attention, or effort. b) bona fide: made with earnest intent c) earnest: serious in intention, purpose, or effort: d) sustained: continuing for an extended period or without interruption. e) endurance: the ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions. f) efficiently: performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort. g) consistently: Same way over a long period of time.
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 workers staying in employer housing will be provided 3 meals per day at the current subsistence rate as posted in the federal register.
Transport: At the filing of this job order that is not known based on appointment availability at the consulate.
a) Incoming: The Employer will not advance transportation and subsistence costs to workers for transportation to or from the place of employment. Employer will reimburse workers as outlined in the regulations the most economical cost of transportation. If there are a sufficient number of workers, employer may arrange for a worker paid charter and reimburse workers as required in the regulations.
Experience wanted: 3 months
All applicants must have at least 3-months experience as a farmworker. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers. Applicants must be able to 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 may be subject to post hire, and 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.
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