Crops/Commodities: shrubs. Primary duties (performed the majority of workdays): Work in nursery facility planting, cultivating, harvesting, and transplanting shrubs. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Plant, spray, weed, fertilize, and water shrubs, using hand tools and gardening tools. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders, leaf blowers, and cart movers. Operate sorting machine. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Install/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions. Clear debris from field and clean/maintain nursery buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas. Assist with nursery building/field maintenance and repairs. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes. Plant, cultivate and maintain nursery stock and/or bedding plants in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them. Take cuttings according to specifications. Stick cuttings and transplant liners by hand or mechanical planter. Make flats by placing inserts or pots into trays and placing into soil filling machinery. Perform cleaning and sanitation procedures as required. Load/unload carts with plants and move to designated locations. Perform general plant maintenance. Prune, trim, space, transplant and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Irrigate and apply fertilizer. Pack, label, tag, pull, and store plants by variety. Count, grade, and inventory plants. Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Dig plants. Must understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures. Must harvest crops according to specific standards. Must be able to read plant tags, lists, and nursery locations. Products must be handled carefully to prevent damage. Pick, move and lay down plants for orders. Pack orders. Load and unload trucks. Construct landscape and vegetable beds. Remove and apply shade tarps to greenhouses. Operate tractors and other machinery and equipment to fertilize, cultivate, harvest, and spray fields and shrubs. Workers may be asked to complete paperwork as needed. Workers with computer experience may be asked to process orders. Work is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 50 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Workers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations.
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