Certified Orchard & Disease Mitigation Specialist
Le Noir Family Farms LLC
📍 Elkland, MO · Dallas County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26250-219653
- 📞 Phone: +1 (417) 224-8654
- 🌐 Website: lenoirfamilyfarms.com/pages/employment
Employer instructions
Direct applications from actual applicants only. No unsolicited contact from private staffing agencies, labor contractors, recruiters, or brokers. State Workforce Agency referrals will be accepted. Applicants must submit a rsum and documentation of required training or credentials. The hiring process consists of rsum review, telephone interview, lawful job-related drug screening and background check, and an in-person interview at Le Noir Family Farms by appointment. All qualifications and screening requirements apply equally to U.S. and prospective H-2A applicants. Interview arrangements will comply with applicable H-2A recruitment requirements.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Certified Orchard & Disease Mitigation Specialist (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26250-219653
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Perform specialized orchard establishment, maintenance, pruning, and plant-health work for apple, cherry, and other fruit trees. Inspect trees for fungal and bacterial disease, insect pressure, nutrient deficiency, winter injury, structural defects, and other conditions affecting tree health or fruit production. Identify affected trees and carry out approved cultural and organic-compatible disease and pest-management practices.
Prune young and established fruit trees using hand pruners, loppers, pruning saws, and pole pruners. Develop and maintain assigned tree-training systems, improve airflow and sunlight penetration, remove dead, damaged, or diseased wood, and support long-term tree health and fruit production. Sanitize pruning tools when disease risk requires it and remove or properly dispose of infected limbs, fallen fruit, mummified fruit, leaves, and other disease-harboring orchard debris.
Monitor orchard blocks on a regular schedule and maintain written or electronic records of tree condition, disease and pest observations, weather-related risks, pruning completed, treatments applied, and follow-up work required. Apply approved biological, mineral-based, horticultural, and other organic-compatible products according to label directions, employer instructions, applicable regulations, and required safety procedures. Calibrate, operate, clean, and maintain backpack sprayers, hand sprayers, and related orchard application equipment.
Plant, stake, tie, train, water, mulch, fertilize, and protect newly established fruit trees. Install and maintain tree guards, support systems, irrigation components, orchard fencing, and related orchard infrastructure. Perform grafting, limb training, fruit thinning, sucker removal, weed control, mowing, and other seasonal orchard-maintenance duties.
Operate tractors, mowers, utility vehicles, trailers, and other farm equipment used in orchard operations when authorized. Perform routine equipment inspections and basic maintenance. Work outdoors in varying weather conditions and perform repeated bending, reaching, climbing, lifting, carrying, standing, and walking while using orchard tools and ladders.
The orchard is located on an agritourism farm that is periodically open to families, children, customers, and other members of the public. While performing the primary orchard duties described above, the worker may have incidental contact with visitors. The worker must communicate courteously and professionally, answer basic questions concerning orchard activities when able, direct visitors to designated public areas, communicate orchard safety rules, and promptly report hazards or visitor-safety concerns to the employer.
When working in public orchard areas, the worker may provide limited assistance directly related to orchard operations, including explaining safe fruit-picking practices, directing visitors away from active equipment or treatment areas, and maintaining clean and safe orchard pathways. These visitor-contact responsibilities are incidental to the worker’s primary orchard establishment, pruning, cultivation, plant-health monitoring, disease-mitigation, and seasonal maintenance duties.
Requirements
| Education | High school / GED |
|---|---|
| Experience | 3 months |
| Other requirements | Driver's license required Lifting up to 50 lb |
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 4:00 A.M. – 8:12 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Other |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Elkland, Mo) |
| Housing | Employer will provide one worker with a private, furnished studio-style sleeping and living area located within the employer’s farmhouse. The worker will not share the sleeping area. The worker will have access to a shared full bathroom and a shared kitchen equipped for food storage and meal preparation. Housing, utilities, and kitchen access will be provided at no cost to the worker for the duration of the employment contract. The housing will be inspected and approved under applicable H-2A |
| Meals | the employer furnishes free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities sufficient for preparation of three meals per day and that the worker will be provided transportation to a grocery store at least once each week at no cost to the worker using employer-provided transportation. Additional reasonable grocery trips may be provided when necessary. The employer will also provide basic cooking and food preparation equipment necessary for workers to prepare their own meals, including pots, pans, cooking utensils, dishes, cups, and eating utensils. Workers will have reasonable and convenient access to the kitchen facilities each day and will be able to independently purchase, store, prepare, and cook their own meals. All kitchen facilities, appliances, utilities, and basic cooking equipment will be provided to the worker without charge and will be maintained in safe, sanitary |
| Daily transportation | Employer-provided housing and the primary worksite are located at the same site; therefore, daily transportation between the worker's housing and place of employment is not required. The worker will be able to walk directly from the employer-provided housing to the worksite. |
| Travel to the job | Worker arranges inbound transportation. After completing 50% of the contract, employer will reimburse reasonable inbound transportation and subsistence costs, subject to any earlier FLSA reimbursement requirement. Upon contract completion or termination without cause, employer will provide or pay reasonable outbound transportation and subsistence, using the most economical reasonable common carrier |
| Pay deductions | All deductions required by law, including applicable federal, state, and local income-tax withholding and, for U.S. workers, employee Social Security and Medicare taxes. H-2A workers are exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes. Federal income tax will be withheld from an H-2A worker only when legally required or when voluntarily authorized by the worker through a completed Form W-4. No deductions will be made for employer-provided housing, utilities, transportation between housing and the worksite, tools, supplies, or equipment. No other deductions are anticipated. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26250-219653 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Posted | Sep 16, 2026 |