Farmworkers, Laborers
Cedar Crossing Farms, Inc
📍 Uvalda, GA · Toombs County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26231-177884
- 📞 Phone: +1 (912) 594-6333
- ✉️ Email: cedarcrossingfarm@gmail.com
Employer instructions
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
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Farmworkers, Laborers (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26231-177884
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
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.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | Not required |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 75 lb |
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.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 8:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | 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 |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Uvalda, Ga) |
| Meals | Housing and kitchen facilities will be provided at no cost to workers who are not reasonably able to return to their place of residence the same day. Employer will furnish free cooking and kitchen facilities to those workers who are entitled to live in the employers' housing so that workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week the employer will offer to provide (on a voluntary basis by the workers) free transportation to assure workers access to the closest store where they can purchase groceries. No charge will be made for bed or cooking utensils and similar items furnished by the employer to workers to whom housing is provided. The housing provided varies according to location and includes dormitory-style buildings. Housing provided will be shared without regard to the gender of the workers. In housing facilities occupied by both male and female workers, sex-segregated toilet facilities will be provided by the employer. |
| Daily transportation | Employer will provide transportation between housing provided or secured by the employer and the employer's worksite(s) at no cost to the worker. All employer provided transportation is in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, or local laws and regulations. |
| Travel to the job | The Employer will reimburse workers who complete 50 percent of the work contract period and who are not reasonably able to return the same day to their place of residence for the reasonable cost of transportation and subsistence from the place of recruitment to the place of employment |
| Pay deductions | The employer will make the following deductions from the worker's wages: FICA taxes and Federal Income Tax as required by law, cash advances and repayment of loans, repayment of over payment of wages to the worker, payment for articles which the worker has voluntarily purchased from the Employer, long-distance telephone charges, recovery of any loss to the Employer due to the worker's damage (beyond normal wear and tear) or loss of equipment or housing items where it is shown that the worker is responsible, and any other deductions expressly authorized by the worker in writing. No deduction not required by law will be made that brings the worker's hourly earnings below the Federal statutory minimum wage per hour. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26231-177884 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Posted | Sep 10, 2026 |