Farm Worker

Work description

Job requires the operation various tractors and farm equipment to till soil; work ground and prepare and maintain land; and plant and spray, cultivate, harvest, and transport crops to elevator or storage area. Equipment that workers may be required to operate includes, but is not limited to, tractors with various implements, sprayers, combines, mowers, forklift, flat bed trucks and passenger trucks. Job requires transporting agricultural products and commodities from the field to storage using farm vehicles and equipment. Manual duties include but are not limited to loading seed in planters, changing combine cutting heads, moving, attaching, and detaching equipment; and using hand tools in fields; welding; performing general maintenance, repairs and or clean up of storage sheds, structures, buildings, and all farm equipment; ensuring operational areas are organized and well maintained; using hand tools and equipment to repair, clean and maintain farm vehicles, machinery and specialized machinery and agricultural equipment; regularly servicing equipment; mowing and landscaping around the farm; inventory management of seed, parts, tools, etc; and lifting as needed. Duties also include receiving crop for drying at grain storage facility; disposing of spoiled grain; transporting grain from fields to grain bins; loading and unloading grain into trucks while keeping grain level; monitoring grain moisture levels; shoveling grain; sweeping grain bins. There are few typical days and workers may be required to change duties and/or locations often and engage in various general functions. Daily duties may vary depending on crop, weather, and field conditions. The employer reserves the right to increase workers' pay or provide bonuses based on tenure, performance, or other factors that are solely based on discretion of the employer.