Seasonal Crop Farmworker

Seasonal Crop Farmworker at My-T Acres, Inc. in Batavia, NY.

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.

Work begins January 20, 2027 and ends November 1, 2027.

Pay is $16.17 per hour.

Housing is provided.

Typical schedule: about 40 hours per week.