Farmworkers and Laborers
DRBCE Langley Farms (Partnership)
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Job overview
DRBCE Langley Farms (Partnership) is hiring a Farmworkers and Laborers. DRBCE Langley Farms is seeking farmworkers and laborers for various duties related to tobacco, forage, and fruit/vegetable production. Responsibilities include nursery care, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and operating farm machinery. Workers will also perform general farm maintenance and other related tasks as needed.
Key focus areas include Perform nursery care for tobacco plants, Lay, trim, top trim, store, grease, and peel tobacco, and Cut 100 sticks of burley tobacco per hour.
Important skills include Nursery Care, Laying, Trimming, Storing, Greasing, and Peeling.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
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Expected Start Date
07/28/2026
Compensation
$14.00 - $14.00 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
17
Job Description
Skill Level 1
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). Dark Fired Tobacco: Duties include but are not limited to: Nursery removal, placing, cutting buffers/greasing, cutting, storing and peeling. Workers will be required to cut wood and haul it to the barn to burn the tobacco. Wooden boards covered with sawdust are placed under the tobacco that is hanging in the barn. The boards are burned to smoke the tobacco and this is repeated until the tobacco reaches the appropriate color. Workers will remove the ashes that remain after the tobacco is burned. The worker is required to cut 50-60 sticks per hour. Air Cured Tobacco: Duties include but are not limited to: Nursery care, placing, cutting buffers/greasing, cutting, storing and peeling. Other Related Duties for All Types of Tobacco: Workers will cut the weeds between the plants with a pick or shovel; 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.
Fruit/Vegetable Production: Duties to include, but not limited to: Workers may drive and operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest and store vegetables. Attach farm implements such as plow, disc, and drill to tractor and drive tractor in field to till soil and plant/cultivate crop. Perform variety of other duties such as lubricating and repairing farm machinery. May plan and schedule plowing, cultivating and harvesting operations. Plant, cultivate, harvest, & pack vegetables (boxes, buckets & crates). Lay plastic, setting plants, weeding (w/hoe & by hand), driving stakes, grading/sorting and activities associated with vegetable production. Assist in set-up of product for sale of crop.
Alternative work: General farm maintenance and other duties as required in the farming operation maintenance. Includes, but not limited to, preparing barns, draining fields, preparing land for planting, dropping sticks in field, maintenance of tool & equipment & other work as directly related to the crop activities for which the worker is hired. Also includes fixing and the clearing and painting of fence/barns. Such work will be offered when climate or crop conditions preclude working in the primary activities listed.
Job Type
Full time - temporary
Industry
Agriculture
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
923324
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