Farm Worker
Employer: My-T Acres, Inc.
Location: Batavia, NY
Workers needed: 14
Pay: $16.17/hour
Season: Jan 20, 2027 – Nov 1, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Crops including but not limited to: Beans, Beets, Cabbages, Carrots, Celery, Corn, Field crops, Grains, Green beans, Oats, Onions, Peas, Rye, Vegetables, Wheat, Winter Squash, Potatoes.
Manually pick, lift, and carry stones from fields to truck, loader, or woods to clear fields. Cut, chop, and/or pull weeds or vines. Pick up wood, sticks, and/or stones from fields or hedgerows. Manually hand and/or machine plant cabbage or onion plants. May walk behind a machine planter and cover transplanted cabbage plugs. May ride a mechanical transplanter and load cabbages or onion plants into planting cups. Assist in the planting of potatoes, including but not limited to riding on the potato planter. May help unload potato seed into the potato planter. Perform farmyard work, including raking and picking up sticks and/or leaves from yards. Hand harvest and/or assist in the mechanical harvest of onions. Grade and/or sort onions. Manually pack onions into totes, bags, crates, or trucks. May walk behind harvester and hand pick onions that were missed by harvester. May harvest beets, carrots, and potatoes. Hand weed or hoe weeds from cabbage, beets, beans, carrots, corn, sweet corn, onions, winter squash and/or potatoes. Ride on a carrot or beet harvester to manually remove tops and/or dirt. Clean and maintain vegetable harvesting equipment. Assist in the minor repair and cleaning of potato harvesting equipment and potato barn equipment. Ride on the potato harvester and pick stone clods and bad potatoes. Manually grade and cut defective potatoes, including green potatoes. Workers may grade potatoes as they are unloaded from trucks arriving from fields into storage (located on the farm) or into customers' trucks. Potatoes are graded outside before washing and graded inside after washing. Workers may also grade potatoes inside the storage area as they come out of storage to be loaded onto customers' trucks. Grade carrots as they are unloaded from farm trucks and placed into storage (located on the farm). Grade carrots as they are removed from storage and placed into bags or totes for customers (located on the farm). Assist in cleaning carrot grading equipment, areas, and storage. Hand cut or harvest cabbage or assist in cabbage harvest conducted mechanically. May hand harvest/sort/grade winter squash. Load, unload, carry, hook up, and/or monitor irrigation pipes or systems. Workers may occasionally operate and move equipment, such as tractors or mowers.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer-provided housing includes free and convenient kitchen facilities with appropriate equipment, appliances, cooking accessories, and dishwashing facilities for meal preparation. Workers residing in employer-provided housing will be provided free transportation once per week to/from closest town or city for personal errands (e.g., groceries, banking services). Dining, kitchen/cooking facilities and other common areas are shared by all workers. In the event that kitchen facilities become unavailable during the contract period, employer will provide three daily meals in accordance with 20 CFR 655.122(g). In such circumstances, employer will deduct the cost of such meals up to the maximum allowable amount published in the Federal Register, or as otherwise approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Transport: Employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier (e.g., van, bus, plane) transportation charges for the distances involved for both inbound and outbound transportation. Inbound transportation provided from the foreign worker's home city to the U.S. consulate and from the U.S. Consulate to the work site.
Experience wanted: 2 months
Two months verifiable experience required in commercial, conventional farming in the agricultural jobs/tasks listed. Applicants must be 18 years or older.
Post-hire, employer-paid random drug and alcohol testing may be done in accordance with state law. Workers are not permitted to be under the influence of intoxicants of any kind during working hours.
The company may conduct employer-paid criminal background checks on all new applicants for employment. Seasonal Employees seeking rehire will not be required to submit a new background check. For purposes of this policy, rehires shall be defined consistently with IRCA's employment eligibility re- verification requirements for former hires.
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