Farmworkers, Laborers
Cedar Crossing Farms, Inc · Uvalda, GA
Employment period: 2026-10-19 to 2026-12-28
Hours per week: 40.0
Pay conditions
Per 100 feet/4 rows, plants 4 inches apart. Estimated hourly wage rate equivalent for this piece rate is $14.10/hour, based on workers making 380 ft/hr on average. Guaranteed rate wage rate for domestic workers $12.57/hr. For H-2A workers $10.80/h
Job duties from the source
Employees will be expected to perform work activities related to planting, weeding, cultivating, harvesting, and packing onions and cabbage. Workers will be expected to harvest, clip, bag, and/or load produce. Pull Onion Plants: Workers will pull 100 plants; place them together and put rubber bands around the bundle. According to the maturity of the plants, the supervisor may vary the number of plants per bundle. Workers will cut tops and place bundles into field bags. There are 3,000 plants per field bag. Workers must bundle the correct number of plants and put the correct number of bundles into bags. Plant Onions: Workers will pick up plant bundles and take off rubber bands. Workers will put one plant into each hole made by the pegger. In most cases a plant bed will be 100 feet long and four rows wide, with plants being 4 inches apart. There will be cases where a plant bed will be 100 feet long and four rows wide with plants being 4.5 inches apart. Before they start a field, workers will be advised what plant distance they will be planting and the correspondent piece rate applicable. Workers must be careful to place the plant all the way into the hole made by the pegger. Walker: The walkers will walk fields and count bundled bags produced by each worker. They will also examine the quality of onion planting and report to supervisor. Loader: Workers will load field bags of onion plants onto the truck to be transported to the field where the onions are planted. Throwing: Workers will give the bundles of onions gathered in the seedbeds to the workers in the fields to be transplanted. Plant Cabbage: Workers will help transplant cabbage seedlings by hand, according to supervisor’s instruction. Harvest Cabbage: Workers will pick up produce at ground level. Workers must exercise extreme care not to drop the produce at any time during handling. General Activities During Operations General: All Crops: During field operations, workers may be required to operate forklifts, drive a truck, pull weeds, move irrigation pipe, clean and repair housing, and perform farm and field sanitation.
Additional requirements
Workers will manually pull, plant, and load onion plants and cabbage. Workers must exercise extreme care not to drop farm produce any time during handling. Able to work in hold, cold and/or humid weather bending or stooping to reach ground level crops, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers should report to work on their own suitable clothing.
Verification
H-2A disclosures
Housing: Check job order · Daily transport: Check job order · 3/4 guarantee: Check job order
How to apply
Referrals will be accepted by the employer from all sources. Applicants, including interstate (out of state) workers, are not required to go through the Georgia Department of Labor in order to go to work for the employer. Applicants may apply directly to Cedar Crossing Farms, Inc. Only workers legally authorized to work in the United States and who possess original identity and employment eligibility documents sufficient to complete USCIS Form I-9, as required by the Immigration and Nationality Act, should report to work. Workers referred against this Job Order should be informed that they must have these documents in their possession when they arrive at the place of employment. Employer will interview the person for 1) Availability for entire season, 2) Available transportation to the job site, 3) Has been fully appraised by the local employment services of the terms and conditions of employment. Workers recruited against the Job Offer from within normal commuting distance will not be provided with housing, subsistence and transportation. Cedar Crossing Farms, Inc. 2297 GA Highway 56 W, Uvalda GA 30473. Jamie Shaffer (912) 594 6333, Monday - Friday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, cedarcrossingfarm@gmail.com
Recruitment phone: +19125946333
Recruitment: cedarcrossingfarm@gmail.com