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Crops: Strawberries, Peaches, Apples, Vegetables, Hay Workers will prepare fields for planting, plant, cultivate, and harvest named in this job order. Workers may be responsible for preparation of field beds, assisting in installation of drip irrigation and black plastic. Duties will include working in a greenhouse. Some workers may be requested to be working crew leaders. These workers will be chosen based on several factors including the workers performance and tenure. Properly licensed workers may assist in transporting fellow workers. Strawberries and Vegetables: Workers will plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables. Workers will be required to remove weeds by hand or with a hoe. Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately sixty (60) lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Pickers will take care not to bruise or scar produce. Pre-harvest activities may include staking, tying, transplanting, and pruning. Workers will stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew or rain. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from forty (40) to over one hundred (100) degrees. The following duties apply to Peaches and Apples: Picking Fruit: Worker will be assigned a row, usually with a partner, and is responsible for picking all the proper fruit from that row, or half row. Fruit is selected from the tree according to size and/or color standard set by the picking supervisor. In some instances, fruit harvest will be done from up to a sixteen-foot ladder weighing up to 30 lbs. All workers must be able to lift, carry, and work from the top of the ladder. The entire tree must be checked to ensure removal of all fruit meeting-picking requirements. Fruit is placed gently in the picking container until container is full. The full picking container weighing up to 50 lbs. is then taken to fruit wagon and gently emptied into a field bin, taking care of not to spill or bruise the fruit in the container or in the field bin. Workers will be given a token or recorded electronically each time a unit of fruit is delivered. Workers piece rate pay may be determined by the total number of field bins picked by that worker. Field bin volume will be checked and determined by weight on state certified scales. Workers are to stay on their assigned row unless directed by a supervisor to change, or to help someone out sporadically. Picking units will be kept free of limbs, leaves or mushy fruit. At the end of the pickling day, tokens will be counted by the worker and supervisor. If an electronic tally device is used, picker totals will be available the following day. Fruit harvested specifically for sale at a roadside stand as fresh market specialty baskets in peck or half bushel containers must be field graded. For fruit harvest for sale at a roadside stand, extra care must be used to ensure that each piece of fruit is undamaged and perfect. Workers will be required to pick up and return picking ladders to the ladder wagon provided by the grower at the end of each workday or as directed by the grower or designated supervisor.