Crop Farmer

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 40 to 60 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:
**Education**:

- No degree, certificate or diploma
**Work site environment**:

- Corn farming
- Hog and pig farming
- Oilseed (except soybean) farming
- Other grain farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Wheat farming
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Grain, oil and forage crop
- Harvest crops
**Work setting**:

- Rural area
**Level of expertise**:

- Operator
**Tasks**:

- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Consider water saturation, light and temperature when planning for crop growth and development
- Coordinate planting and cultivating activities
- Follow sustainable soy farming practices such as crop rotation, reduced-till or no-till, water and nutrient management, precision farming technology and cover crops
- Handling animals
- Manage feed inventory activities
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize planting, cultivating and crop harvesting activities
- Oversee the activities of clearing the fields
- Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
- Manage overall operation of farm
- Perform general farm duties
- Maintain equipment
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Fertilizer applicator
- Harvesters
- Storage and silage system
- Tractor
- Truck
**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Valid driver's licence
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Overtime required
**Personal suitability**:

- Flexibility
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Punctuality
**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
**Experience**:

- Experience an asset