Anticipated period of employment: Apr 28, 2025 to Dec 06, 2025

Manually plant, cultivate and harvest apples. Grow fruit trees in nursery. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning tools, shears, and knives.

Duties include tiling soil and applying fertilizers, transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops, applying chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides). Cleaning, packing, and loading harvested products. Work in nursery which will include planting, budding, care of nursery trees, grafting, and weeding as directed. Construct trellises, repair fence, general equipment maintenance, and farm buildings or participate in irrigation activities. Operate and tend equipment used in agricultural production (tractors, tractor drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery, plows, discs, sprayers, trailers to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray, prune, train, and harvest crops. Use machinery or tools to mow grass, cut brush, plant young trees. Workers will be expected to be able to operate farm equipment, with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, crops, trees, facilities and equipment. Failure to comply with operating and safety standards may result in termination.

Inform farmer or farm managers of crop progress. Identify plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers. Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs. Pick apples. All fruit is to be handled with care to avoid bruising. Apples injured by bruising during picking shall not exceed 0 percent (WNY) for fresh and 0 percent (WNY) for processing. Productivity must be at least 6 bins (120 bushels) fresh market and or 8 bins (160 bushels) processing fruit per day. Workers will be working in groups of up to 8 workers per self-propelled machine. Working in nursery all small trees should be handled with care to not damage the trees. When budding/tying trees you are expected to make a minimum of 135 trees per hour, when grafting/tying trees you are expected to make 75 trees per hour. Workers are expected to work at least the number of days and hours specified. Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract they may call and/or email the employer to schedule an interview Monday- Friday from 8pm to 5pm and referred to NY1525522 as the JO is in connection with this NJ1491289.

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