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Newcomb's Nursery Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery in Vineland, New Jersey
4 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 3/17/2025 - 11/21/2025.
Crops/Commodities: nursery stock. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs.
Prepare fields/soil for planting and harvesting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes. Plant, cultivate and maintain nursery plants, including perennials, bedding plants, vegetable plants and hanging baskets in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Pot seedlings. Propagate plants.Perform general plant maintenance. Prune, trim, space, transplant and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Irrigate and apply fertilizer. Pack, label, tag, pull, and store plants by variety. Count, grade, and inventory plants. Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Dig plants. Drum lacing and quarter lacing. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twine and/or staples. Crimp wire baskets. Products must be handled carefully to prevent damage.
Assist in constructing greenhouses and shade frames, winterizing by covering with plastic or remay. Preforming tasks around the potting machine which may include loading pots, planting plants, taking plants off conveyors and carrying into greenhouses. As plants mature and are ready for sale, workers will pull plants from the growing area and load into trucks, unloading plant deliveries, and loading plants for customers. Make cuttings off mother stock which requires long hours of kneeling and pruning with clippers and loading these cutting onto trucks and hauling to the packing shed.
Requirements:
- 3 months experience in duties listed
- Lifting requirement 75 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive pushing or pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
- Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov