FARMWORKERS, FARM, RANCH, AND AQUACULTURAL ANIMALS
Employer: CHAD HILL
Location: ELTON, LA
Workers needed: 6
Pay: $14.53/hour
Season: Dec 15, 2026 – Aug 1, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Farm worker needed for crawfish season followed by rice season. Seasonal need begins with crawfish season in January and continues into rice planting and harvesting in fall. Crawfish season extends from mid Janaury until early summer. Rice is planted in or around March. Harvesting of rice occurs during late summer and fall.
Duties: manually cutting fish bait; baiting and checking traps; grading and washing crawfish for shipment; making and repairing traps as needed; tractor driving; field preparation*; water maintenance; fertilizing, planting, and harvesting crops; repairing and maintaining equipment, fields, levees, roads, and shops.
* Field preparation includes manual shovel work and hoeing weeds, spot spraying treatments, and extensive walking;
Experience operating a crawfish boat desired.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: EMPLOYER WILL FURNISH FREE AND CONVENIENT COOKING AND KITCHEN FACILITIES SO THAT THE WORKERS MAY PREPARE THEIR OWN MEALS.
EMPLOYER WILL FURNISH UTENSILS FOR COOKING, FOOD PREPARATION, SERVING AND EATING AT NO COST TO THE WORKERS.
EMPLOYER WILL PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO ASSURE THAT THE WORKER HAS ACCESS TO THE STORES WHERE THE WORKERS CAN PURCHASE GROCERIES.
Transport: For inbound and outbound transportation, the Employer usually contracts with a contractor who arranges transportation, lodging, and meals for the H2A workers during the trip from the place of recruitment to the place of employment at the beginning of the work period and then back to the place of recruitment at the end of the work period. The Employer pays this Contractor a flat fee for the services at no cost to the workers.
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Experience wanted: 3 months
OPERATION OF FARM EQUIPMENT SUCH AS CRAWFISH BOATS TO HARVEST CRAWFISH AND TRACTORS TO PREPARE LEVEES AND FIELDS.
Workers may be required to take random, post-accident, and/or upon suspicion drug test post hire at no cost to the worker. Any drug testing would be post-hire and would be at the expense of the employer, not the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. it is important to the employer that workers be drug free while working and operating equipment as part of the employer's farming operation.
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