Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Rigoberto Barajas
About this opportunity
The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of fruit. Worker will remove fruit from the tree by hand and place it into the picking sack. When the picking sack is full, the worker will transport the full sack to the designated fruit tub or bin.
- Dates
- Nov 16, 2026 – May 10, 2027
- Duration
- ~6 months
- Experience
- 1 month(s)
- Category
- agriculture
Requirements
- Experience: 1 month(s)
- This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning.
- Citrus Harvesting: Harvesting citrus fruit by hand under supervisor’s instructions.
- Worker positions the ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a secure, leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, ensuring a secure position to prevent slipping or falling.
- Planting Citrus Trees: By hand under supervisor’s instructions, planting a tree at a tree space where a tree has been removed (resetting).
- Workers are expected to perform high-quality work, ensuring proper placement and proper tree planting techniques.
- General Field Caretaking: Assisting with tree treatments, removal of grove debris, assisting with irrigation line maintenance and repair, and general grove maintenance.
- weeding, trimming, digging, cutting, topping, and removal of weeds, vines, debris, and trash from fields and fence lines
- routine installation and removal of plastic mulch and irrigation drip tape
- and basic irrigation maintenance and minor repair. Field sanitation activities may include cleaning, disinfecting, maintaining, and performing minor upkeep to harvest buckets, bins, trailers, hand tools, and similar agricultural equipment.
- Workers may also assist with the routine cleaning, washing, and minor non-mechanical upkeep of farm vehicles and equipment.
- Workers may be required to assist with the basic cleaning and routine upkeep of employer-provided housing and common-use facilities, limited to minor, basic tasks necessary to maintain safe, sanitary, and healthy living conditions.
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 Owned. The employer will provide housing, without charge to the worker, the employer will require workers to reimburse the employer for damage caused to housing by the individual workers found to have been responsible for damage. Workers should maintain housing in a neat, clean manner. Family Housing is not available and is not a prevailing practice in the area of intended employment. In the event a female worker is hired, separate toilet, shower, and sleeping rooms will be provided.
- Transportation
- For workers residing in the employer’s housing, employer will provide transportation between housing and worksite locations and for personal errands (e.g., groceries, banking services) in the form of buses between employees housing location to the actual work site and return at the end of the workday without cost to the worker.
How to apply
- srezbarajas@gmail.com
- Phone
- +18634410888
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Official source
U.S. DOL SeasonalJobs
- Case number
- JO-A-300-26258-235118
- Verification
- Last verified: September 20, 2026
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