Anticipated period of employment: 03/24/2025 to 12/06/2025

1 month of verifiable experience required.

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. * See ETA 790 for a complete job description*

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 during normal business hours (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM) and referred to NY1521819 as the JO is in connection with this NJ job order.

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