Hand Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
5 G Harvesting LLC
📍 Belzoni, MS · Humphreys County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26174-040392
- 📞 Phone: +1 (910) 337-2769
- ✉️ Email: rodrigogutierrez24@yahoo.com
Employer instructions
All interested local and intrastate candidates should contact their nearest career center for pre-employment screening before contacting the employer career center staff may only refer candidates who have been apprised of all the materials terms and conditions of employment and have indicated, by accepting referral to the job opportunity, that he or she is qualified, able, willing, and available for employment. Career center staff should email a referral card containing the referral candidate's name, address, and telephone number to the employer first, then instruct the candidate to call the employer directly to schedule a personal interview or a phone interview. Hours for referral candidates to call the employer are 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, Monday-Friday, excluding all federal holidays. Referral candidates Must call the employer and schedule an interview appointment prior to coming. No referral candidate is to go to the employer's address or work site without a scheduled interview. Candidates recruited from outside normal commuting distance are not required to appear in person for an interview. Employer may schedule telephone interview appointments with candidates recruited from outside normal commuting distance. All interstate applicants interested in this job offer should first be the employer. Workers should be fully apprised by the local employment office of the terms, conditions, and nature of employment prior to referral. Workers recruited against the job offer from within normal commuting distance will not be provided housing, subsistence, or transportation. All applicants must be able (with or without reasonable accommodation), willing, and qualified to perform all the work described and must be available for the entire anticipated period of employment. There is no offer or guarantee to be recalled for future employment except for the required solicitation of certain former U.S. workers in compliance with 20 CFR 655.153.
Email: RODRIGOGUTIERREZ24@YAHOO.COM
PHONE:(910)337-2769
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Hand Harvesting Sweet Potatoes (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26174-040392
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
General Farm Labor: Workers will walk along rows as specified by the employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Workers do not load packed final products onto trucks for shipment. Cultivate and hand-harvest harvest sweet potatoes. Load and unload sweet potato. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. The job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. A negative result may be required post-hire and before commencing work. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 75 lbs. in the field. Must not hinder another worker's productivity. Use of a personal cell phone or another personal electronic device during working hours is strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies, and violation may result in immediate termination. Though not a hiring requirement, if a worker drives a company vehicle during the period of employment, then at the time of operating the company vehicle, the driver must possess a valid driver's license issued by a U.S. state or foreign equivalent and operate the company vehicle in accordance with the license restrictions and vehicle classifications applicable to that license. Requires one month of verifiable prior farmworker experience in the crop activities listed.
Sweet potato harvest workers will walk along the row that has been previously plowed. Workers will stoop, bend and kneel to pick up sweet potatoes using their hands and fingers to dig out unexposed potatoes. Workers may grade in the field, separating #1s and #2s into separated 5/8 field hampers. Canners, when harvested, will be placed into a separate bin. Damaged or diseased potatoes will not be harvested. The worker will be required to stay on the assigned row. Full hampers weighing up to 45 lbs. will be carried to the truck row to be loaded onto the truck or trailer. Workers may be required to ride mechanical harvesters. Workers may be required to perform other duties as required by the employer. Hand-harvesting sweet potatoes will be paid at a piece rate. Mechanical harvest work, if any, will be paid hourly.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 1 month |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 75 lb Drug test |
Workers may be required to perform work that is incidental to farming the crops listed in the application. All other duties, if any are assigned, will be those duties of Farm Worker, Diversified Crops, DOT code 407.687-010 (SOC(ONET/OES) code 45-2092.02). This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. Sloppy work cannot and will not be tolerated.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 7:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | $0.50 per 5/8 bushel bucket/Estimated hourly rate will be $11.50 based on individual performance to harvest 23 buckets per hour/$9.74 per hour is guaranteed |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Belzoni, Ms) |
| Housing | Housing is group housing. If a female worker is hired, a separate toilet, shower, and sleeping room will be provided. Family housing is not available. The provision of family housing is not a prevailing practice in the area of intended employment. |
| Meals | Employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so that workers can prepare their own meals where the employer provides facilities for workers to prepare their own meals. workers will have transportation free of cost to all workers to go grocery shopping and run personal errands once a week. workers will ride 2 retired school buses with a seating capacity of 48 to 52 seats. |
| Daily transportation | See Addendum C |
| Travel to the job | please see addendum C |
| Pay deductions | state and federal taxes |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26174-040392 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Posted | Jul 13, 2026 |