Labourer, Farm

Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 45 to 65 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work site environment**:

- Chicken farming
- Hog and pig farming
- Layer poultry farming
- Organic farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Outdoors
- Viticulture
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Cold/refrigerated
- Horticultural field crop
- Livestock
- Poultry and egg production
- All weather conditions
- Dirty
**Tasks**:

- Deleafing
- Handling animals
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- Monitoring animal health
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Shoot positioning
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
**Type of crops**:

- Grapes
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Egg gathering system
- Feeding and watering system
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Manure spreader
- Skidsteer
- Hand tools
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Overtime required
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling