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This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2320523 Dates of Need: 3/1/2025-11/21/2025.
This position is for general farm labor, irrigation, and harvest duties on a row crop farm whose crops include potatoes, corn and wheat. This job requires a minimum of three (3) months of general farm labor experience.
The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds. Workers with a valid drivers license and that are insurable may drive vehicles to transport crop, supplies, equipment, and workers. All other duties assigned. Specific Job Requirements: Irrigation: Hand Lines: 1.Connect pipes. 2.Check the alignment of pipe and adjust for proper water distribution. 3.Attach lines to water supply. 4.Turn on pump. 5.Turn valves to start flow of water. 6.Disassemble lines and carry pipes across fields at specified intervals. 7.Move pipes through freshly irrigated crop and/or plowed fields where mud may be deep at times. 8.Lift and carry pipe sections weighing approximately 60 pounds on a sustained basis. Flood Irrigation: 1.Lift gate inside of flooded irrigation ditch/pipe permitting water to flow into bordered section of field. 2.Shovel and pack dirt in low spots of embankment of cut trenches in high areas to direct water flow. 3.Close gates in ditch/pipe when bordered section is flooded. 4.Open gate or connect pipe to underground pipe system that releases water flow into reservoir or ditch. 5.Siphon water from flooded reservoir or ditch to channel water into designated areas. 6.Shovel or hoe soil to clear ditches/furrows and build embankments to appropriately channel water. 7.Mix and apply proper solutions to fill holes/cracks in pipes, ditches, and spillways, and make minor repairs to metal, concrete, and wooden frameworks in pipe and ditch valves and gates. Other Irrigation Duties: 1.Remove pipes/wheel lines from storage and lay out/place in predetermined patterns in fields. 2.Lubricate, adjust, repair, and replace parts such as sprinkler heads and drive chains using hand tools. 3.Observe revolving sprinklers and adjust to ensure proper operation and uniform distribution of water. 4.Disassemble, service, and store pipe/mainlines/wheel lines after irrigation season. 5.To meet minimum acceptable performance standards when irrigating, the worker must, after a 10-day conditioning period, move an average of at least 48 40-foot sections of 3-inch pipe per hour under normal working conditions. 6.Other Irrigation Duties: Repairing and maintaining pivot drop hoses, laying out and picking up 3 hand lines, replacing nozzles and sprinklers on hand lines and pivot drop hoses, laying out and collecting siphon tubes. Pivot Irrigation: 1.Push on switch that activates circle sprinkler system. 2.Turn on/off pivots. 3.Learn and master operating a pivot. 4.If a pivot is stuck, get it unstuck and in operating condition. 5.Roll up/unroll pivot hoses. 6.Unplug plugged up nozzles. 7.Unplug plugged up hoses. 8.Replace broken nozzles and hoses. 9.Maintain operation of a pivot at optimum level. Planting: 1.Field maintenance and weeding using hands, machinery, and sprayers. 2.Loading seed into planters. 3.Walking behind planters to insure proper procedure. Additional Duties: 1.Operate or maintain equipment used in agricultural production and field preparation such as tractors, irrigation equipment, 4-wheelers, non-CDL, farm exempt trucks, and other commonly used equipment in agriculture. 2.Workers may also clear debris and garbage from fields and clean/maintain farm buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas. 3.Load and mix chemicals in addition to operating tractors pulling air blast sprayers. 4.Install monitor, maintain and repair the irrigation system for a specified area of the fields. 5.Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers. 6.
May operate, maintain and repair tractors, and farm machinery. 7.
Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. 8.
Remove weeds from all crops using a shovel, hoe or hands. The anticipated hours listed represent the normal work schedule.
Due to the nature of these crops, weather, and the requirement to send crops to customers when needed, it is the prevailing practice to work more or different hours than those listed. A worker may be offered more than the specified hours of work; however, the worker will not be required to work for more than the number of hours specified in the job order, or on the workers Sabbath or Federal holidays.
Saturday work may be required. Workday start times vary depending on the weather.
depending on the time of year, hours of daylight, and production requirements.
There may be periods when little or no work will be available due to weather, time of year, and the requirements of the cropping or growing season.
Workers must be able to work varying shifts as required by the season and work performed.
Workers are notified of any change in the start times.
Work may be performed during rain, light snow, cold, freezing temperatures and/or in high humidity and in temperatures over a 100 degrees F.
Worker may be required to work