Farm Laborer
Mitchem Farms, LLC (2026.2)
📍 Vale, NC · Lincoln County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26278-280122
- ✉️ Email: info_mitchem_farms@udwss.com
- 🌐 Website: form.jotform.com/UDWSS/mitchem-farms
Employer instructions
Applicants may apply at and be referred by any local office of a State Workforce Agency (SWA). The SWA is responsible for informing applicants of all terms and conditions of employment and notifying the employer in advance of any referrals. If appropriate, the SWA should furnish translator services. Applicants should thoroughly familiarize themselves with the job specifications and terms and conditions of employment in the Clearance Order before contacting the employer or seeking a referral. Only workers who meet all the qualifications for employment, who are work authorized, and who are willing and able to perform the work, with or without reasonable accommodation, and who will be available at the time and place needed for the duration of the contract, should contact or be referred to the employer. Applicants, workforce agency personnel, walk-ins, gate hires, etc. may call for an interview during regular business hours at the number listed on the ETA 790, report to the worksite listed on the ETA 790 or email info_mitchem_farms@udwss.com for an application, Monday through Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. ("regular business hours"), except on federal holidays.
If a Job Service Office refers several applicants at the same time, it is requested that the employer be advised in advance so that sufficient time may be allowed to schedule interviews. Applicants will be interviewed in person or by telephone and job offers will be extended to qualified, eligible applicants. Original documents (no copies) of identity and employment authorization sufficient to complete an I-9 Form as required by the Immigration Reform and Control Act must be in possession of the worker at the time the worker reports for work and will be examined by the employer as a condition for completing the hiring process. Referring local offices should fully apprise workers of this requirement. The employer will review each applicant's completed application individually immediately after the interview.
The employer will accept referrals from any source and continue to cooperate with the SWA by accepting referrals of all eligible U.S. workers who apply (or on whose behalf an application is made) for the job opportunity until the end of the recruitment period as specified in the job order. Applicants and referrals will not be considered until a completed and signed application is provided to the employer indicating that the worker has received a written copy of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker employment disclosures (or contract containing such disclosures)required by law.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Farm Laborer (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26278-280122
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
General farm work will include preparing fields, seeding beds, applying plastic to growing beds, manually planting, cultivating, and harvesting vegetables, fruits, and field crops. Using hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives to support agricultural activities, including pruning berry crops.
Duties may include tilling soil, transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; may assemble/repair trellises and repair or maintain farm buildings and participate in irrigation activities.
Workers with a clean MVR and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be requested to operate employer-owned trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to haul tools, supplies, crops, and transport workers (whether on or off farm) to and from the worker housing to the farm properties and occasionally around the farm properties during the workday including on public roads to reach the fields where work will be performed; and/or may transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as needed basis.
No applicants or workers will be rejected for not possessing a driver’s license or who may be unwilling to drive company vehicles. Such duties are completely optional and may be declined by the worker at his or her sole discretion.
Irrigation work will include setting up drip/overhead irrigation systems, placing or pulling plastic, and operating irrigation equipment.
Harvest Activities:
Melons: Hand harvest placed in bins, short melons by size
Butternut Squash: Hand harvest and places in bins and bushels. Sort squash by grade and size.
Sweet corn: handpick and place in 5-dozen sack.
Blackberries and blueberries: grade, and field pack blackberries (95%) and blueberries (5%) by hand. Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to pick ripe blueberries and blackberries by hand without bruising or damaging the fruit or bush.
Workers must take care to pick bushes clean of all berries of the correct color and size that are suitable for shipment to fresh fruit markets, as instructed by their supervisor. Green or red berries must not be picked.
When picking blueberries, workers will carefully place picked berries into one gallon/six-pound buckets or clamshell containers and carry them to the inspection location according to supervisors’ instructions.
Workers will place full clamshell containers in flats at the end of the rows; carry full buckets and full clamshell flats to the trailer in the field. Buckets and clamshells will be inspected for quality and weighed.
Blackberries will be picked, graded, and packed; workers will carefully place picked berries into buckets with a net weight of 30 pounds or clamshell containers and carry them to the inspection location according to supervisors’ instructions.
Workers will place full clamshell containers in boxes at the end of the rows; carry full buckets and full boxes to the trailer in the field where fruit is inspected for quality and weight.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2 months |
| Other requirements | Driver's license required Lifting up to 30 lb |
We require two months of recent and verifiable experience within the past two years working in diversified crops, handling manual and mechanical tasks, including agricultural field work.
In order to perform this kind of work, workers must be able to walk, bend, reach, push, pull, and lift and carry up to 30 lbs. for prolonged periods of time and have hand dexterity.
Work is outside in extremely wet, humid, hot and dirty conditions.
This position requires a minimum of two months for the employee to get a full understanding of the job and responsibilities.
Must be able to understand work & safety instructions in English or Spanish, the languages spoken and written in the workplace.
Workers may occasionally drive a pickup truck with capacity of 2 passengers.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 8:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | $11.15/hour for H-2A workers |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Vale, Nc) |
| Housing | Housing includes full-kitchen and laundry machines at no cost to the workers. The employer will offer housing, bedding (mattresses, blankets, sheets, pillows and pillowcases), storage for personal belongings, and utilities at no cost to workers recruited from beyond normal commuting distances who are unable to return to their place of residence on a daily basis. |
| Meals | Employer-provided housing includes free and convenient kitchen, cooking and eating facilities. Workers will purchase food at their own expense and prepare their own meals. Kitchen and eating facilities will be shared with other workers occupying the employer-provided housing facilities. In the event kitchen facilities become unavailable due to unanticipated circumstances, the employer will provide three (3) meals per day at a reasonable cost (not to exceed $16.78 for three meals per day). The employer will provide vehicles to transport themselves if they have a valid driver's license to a grocery store at least once per week for workers to purchase groceries. If the workers do not possess a valid driver's license the employer will provide transportation at no cost to workers occupying employer provided housing to and from stores in the locality of the housing where workers may purchase food and other necessities once a week. |
| Daily transportation | For daily transportation, the employer will provide 1 truck with a capacity of 2 passengers. |
| Travel to the job | The employer will provide workers with inbound and outbound transportation as set forth in Section I. paragraph 7(A) and (B). The employer will pay for charter bus services or other modes of transportation to the group of workers or permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose, including common carrier transportation. |
| Pay deductions | The following deductions will be made from the worker’s pay: FICA (if applicable); federal income tax withholding (if applicable); state and/or local tax withholding (if applicable). Re-issued check policy: After the first loss, mutilation or expiration of a worker's check, the company will charge a $25.00 processing fee for every reissued check, for any reason other than the company's negligence. The employer will not deduct from the wage or require any reimbursement from an employee for any cash shortage, breakage, or loss of housing, furnishings, tools or equipment, unless it can be shown that such shortage, breakage, or loss is caused by a dishonest or willful act, or by the gross negligence of the employee; medical insurance payments, if applicable; cash advances, if applicable; state sponsored retirement savings plan deductions, if applicable; and deductions expressly authorized by the worker in writing (if any). |
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| Case number | JO-A-300-26278-280122 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | Western Growers Association |
| Posted | Oct 6, 2026 |