H-2A

Farmworker

Job conditions

Duties may include: Crawfishing; repairing crawfish traps as needed; setting out crawfish traps and putting stakes out in crawfish fields; manually cutting up of fish bait, baiting traps, operate motorized or push crawfish boats; while crawfishing traps are removed from the pond, crawfish are emptied into sacks, traps are re-baited and put back into pond, setting traps; removing traps from field at end of season; stocking crawfish ponds; weigh& tag crawfish, wash and grade crawfish, load crawfish in truck to deliver to markets/plants. May also include driving tractor or other equipment, field preparations, planting and harvesting of rice and soybean crop, fertilizing, plowing, digging ditches; fixing levees; assist with loading/unloading rice trucks, shipping out rice; must be able to drive vehicle to various farm locations and crawfish plants/markets; spraying to maintain vegetation; maintain rice bins to include clean up rice spills, sweeping rice spills/pins, help repair & maintain farm equipment, shop, fields, levees, and farm roads, water maintenance.