3 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/01/2024 - 12/15/2024.

　　Crops/Commodities: Nursery stock, Christmas trees, B&B trees. Perform manual and mechanized tasks associated with the outdoor production of horticultural products. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, plugs, liners, and other horticultural varieties. Prepare fields soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using hand tools or mechanized equipment (rakes, shovels, hoes, tractors, mattocks, brush hooks and or axes). Plant pot seedlings or liners by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Prepare trees for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Hand dig trees and other plants with shovel or tree spade.

　　Perform general plant maintenance. Irrigate and apply fertilizer or other chemicals. Train, prune, trim, shear, space, transplant and cull trees and or plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Shear trees with proper taper and bud cut angle for quality. Tie position trees and plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Count, inventory, and grade trees. Select trees for cutting according to grade. Cut trees using axe or chainsaw. Drag cut trees from cutting area. Bale trees using tree baler. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twice and or stapes. Pack, label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety. Clean maintain work area.

　　Install maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates.

　　Requirements:

　　3 months experience in duties listedLifting requirement 60 lbs.Exposure to extreme temperaturesExtensive pushing or pullingExtensive sitting or walkingFrequent stooping or bending overRepetitive movementsThe full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov