Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Josh Curtis
About this opportunity
Burley Tobacco: Duties include, but not limited to: Nursery care, laying, trimming, top trimming, storing and greasing and peeling. Workers will be trained for a period of two days (14 hours) after which the worker is expected to cut 100 sticks per hour - does not include dropped sticks. Other related jobs and duties may include cutting weeds between plants with a hoe: removing tops and shoots from plants, applying fertilizer (side dressing).
- Dates
- Nov 14, 2026 – Jan 30, 2027
- Duration
- ~3 months
- Experience
- Not required / not stated
- Category
- agriculture
Requirements
- Experience not required / not stated
- Physically able to bend, stoop, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Physically able to meet and perform all job specifications. May be required to take random drug and / or alcohol tests, at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. All testing and background check will occur after employment has started and is not a part of the interview process. May be required to submit a criminal background check, at no cost to the worker. Felony convictions that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers or other individuals on the farm will result in immediate termination. Failure to comply with request for criminal background check may result in immediate termination of employment.
- Skill Level 1
- cutting tops and suckers on plants, and applying fertilizer.
- Forage: Duties will include, but are not limited to: Land preparation, operating tillage equipment, cutting equipment. Take the hay bales to the storage barns/barns of farms that purchase the hay.
- Row Crops: Duties to include, but not limited to: Workers may drive and operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest and store grain crops such as corn, wheat, soybeans, etc. Attach farm implements such as plow, disc, and drill to tractor and drive tractor in field to till soil and plant/cultivate crop. Bushhog fields. Perform variety of other duties such as husking and shelling corn, lubricating and repairing farm machinery and unloading grain onto conveyors to storage bins and elevators.
- General Conditions: If work is available beyond normal workdays, employer may offer, but not require, worker an opportunity to work additional hours.
- workers may be requested to ten (10) hours per day depending on conditions in fields and the maturity of the crops. Also, workers may be requested to work on federal holidays and their Sabbath but will not be required.
- Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Down time: Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season.
- Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew / rain and should have suitable clothing for conditions which include light rain and temperatures ranging from 10 degrees to more than 100 degrees.
- Workers should be able to stand, bend, stoop and work for prolonged periods of time and be physically fit to perform duties as assigned. Care must always be exercised with any use of equipment.
Work authorization
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- Work authorization
- H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker
- International candidates
- Yes
- Employer sponsorship
- Required
- Confirmation
- Confirmed by source
- Official source
- U.S. Department of Labor
Benefits & conditions
- Housing
- Employer-provided (including mobile or range) — Employer assures availability at no cost or public housing which meets full set of applicable standards. Workers are responsible for maintaining housing in a clean manner. Workers will be charged for destruction of property. Furnished at no cost to workers who are unable to return to their place of residence the same day. In the event that a female worker is hired, the employer will provide separate toilet and shower facilities
- Transportation
- SEE ADDENDUM C
How to apply
E-mail: joshua_curtis26@eku.edu; Tel: +18595882451
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- Case number
- JO-A-300-26258-235100
- Verification
- Last verified: September 20, 2026
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