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General labourer – farm Jobs in Simcoe, Canada at Schuyler Farms Ltd.
Title: General labourer – farm
Company: Schuyler Farms Ltd.
Location: Simcoe, Canada
Category:
Location: Simcoe
- Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience:
1 to less than 7 months
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Dusty
- Noisy
- Rural area
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Cut horticultural crops
- Follow sustainable soy farming practices such as crop rotation, reduced-till or no-till, water and nutrient management, precision farming technology and cover crops
- Apples
- Asparagus
- Cherries
- Own transportation
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime required
- Work Term:
Seasonal
- Work Language:
English
- Hours:
40 to 60 hours per week
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