H-2AFarming and ranching

Orchard Workers

Dickey Farms

📍 Byron, GA · Crawford County

Pay$12.57 per hour

DatesJan 11, 2027 – Aug 16, 2027

Openings140

Hours per week45

✔ Housing provided
✔ Daily transportation

How to apply

Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26301-328777

📞 Phone: +1 (478) 836-4362
✉️ Email: sprypr@dickeyfarms.com

Employer instructions

Interested candidates are to contact their local State Workforce Agency (SWA). Candidates should be fully apprised by the local SWA office of the terms, conditions and nature of employment prior to referral and may be given a copy of the ETA Form 790 and its corresponding attachments. SWA agents who have screened candidates for all season availability, legality to work in the US, and who are willing, able and qualified to perform the job duties may email referrals to sprypr@dickeyfarms.com; or mail them to P.O. BOX 10, Musella, GA 31066. Applicants referred on this job order should be advised that they must possess legal, suitable documents to complete Form I-9 as required by USCIS and the Department of Homeland Security.

Two months of verifiable horticultural pruning and thinning and fruit orchard experience is required with verifiable sources. Employees may be subject to a post hire background check at no expense of their own and pass a post-hire free of charge drug test. These steps are intended to ensure that the safety of the work environment and end consumer is not compromised as mandated by the Global G.A.P Audit, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the USDA Good Agricultural Practices & Good Handling Practices Audit. Convictions of criminal conduct that present a potential compromise of food security in accordance with the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 will be cause for discharge. The employer may terminate the worker (foreign and/or domestic) with notification to the employment service if employer discovers a criminal conviction record or status as a registered sex offender that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers. Although an international or US drivers license is not required, all applicants must be in compliance with Federal, State and local licensing requirements for safe employer vehicle operation. Applicants who have been disbarred from licensing for multiple DUIs will not be eligible.

✉️ Application email template in English

Replace what is in brackets [ ] with your details. If the employer asked for another way to apply, follow their instructions.

Subject: Application for Orchard Workers (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26301-328777

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing to apply for the Orchard Workers position (H-2A, case number JO-A-300-26301-328777) in Byron, GA, from January 11, 2027 to August 16, 2027.

[Write 1 or 2 lines about your experience, for example: I have 2 years of experience working in landscaping and construction.]

I am available for the full contract period and I can send my resume and references. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
[Your full name]
[Your country] - [Your phone / WhatsApp] - [Your email]

Job duties

Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.

Crops and Agricultural Duties: Crops include fruit and nuts, peaches, pecans, vegetables, trees, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, green beans, okra, squash, corn, pumpkins, zucchini, flowers, melons, aquaculture, and berries. Duties include tilling soil; digging holes to appropriate depths; planting and transplanting; weeding, thinning, pruning, cultivating, tending, and harvesting crops; and cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products.
Workers must have a general understanding of how pruning affects competition with fruiting wood and how thinning provides adequate nutrition to developing fruit. Improper pruning can negatively affect fruit load, fruit size, disease severity, and overall production. Workers must follow instructions regarding proper spacing when thinning and which peaches are to be left or removed. Only specified fruit is to be picked as instructed. Desirable fruit must not be left on trees, dropped, or left on the ground. Workers must use care when picking, grading, and packing to prevent damage or bruising and must take care not to break limbs or strip all peaches and leaves from trees. Workers must harvest fruit at the desired stage of ripeness.
Workers will manually cultivate, harvest, grade, sort, and pack peaches and other agricultural products. Duties include discarding inferior or defective products and foreign matter; weighing or estimating product weight visually or by feel; placing products into containers according to grade; marking grades, identification numbers, and other required information on containers, tags, shipping, receiving, or sales records; measuring, weighing, and counting products and materials; and examining containers, materials, and products to ensure packing specifications are met. Workers will record product, packaging, order, grade, and identification information on specified forms and records; remove completed or defective products to conveyors or designated areas such as loading docks; seal containers using glue, string, nails, and hand tools; peel, slice, and load materials or products into package-processing equipment; assemble, line, and pad cartons, crates, and containers; clean containers, materials, supplies, and work areas using cleaning solutions and hand tools; stack boxes on pallets; and operate fillers.
Workers will grade, sort, or classify agricultural products according to size, weight, color, or condition. Duties also include planting, cultivating, tending, and picking blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries; harvesting pecans; planting, cultivating, pruning, and maintaining pecan trees; and planting, harvesting, and performing ongoing maintenance of green beans, okra, squash, corn, pumpkins, zucchini, flowers, melons, berries, and other crops as directed.

Orchard and Grounds Maintenance: Ongoing orchard maintenance includes planting, pruning, and thinning trees as instructed. Workers will use hand tools including shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, knives, pruners, and picking totes. Duties include maintaining farm buildings, structures, fences, irrigation tape or tubing, ditches, fields, orchards, and other work areas; cutting and dragging broken tree limbs from fields; and removing vines, suckers, shoots, and debris that may interfere with the function or growth of trees.
Workers will apply pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and fungicides to crops and assist with Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) policies. Workers must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required.

Farm Equipment and Vehicles: Workers may operate farm vehicles, implements, and equipment, including chainsaws, weed eaters, blowers, tractors, forklifts, mowers, bulldozers, backhoes, and other hand-held equipment, to plow, harrow, fertilize soil, plant, cultivate, spray, and harvest crops.

Requirements

Education	None required
Experience	2 months
Other requirements	Lifting up to 50 lb

Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at the employer's expense.

Employer may conduct criminal background check post-employment and at the employer's expense.

Benefits and conditions

Schedule	6:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Paid	Weekly
Pay details	Hand harvest peaches, 5/8 bushel. The H2A rate is $10.80 per hour.
Housing type	Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Byron, Ga)
Housing	Units are comprised of wood frame, mobile home and/or block structures. Structures are built specifically for compliance with the DOL OSHA standards set forth in 29 CFR 1910.142. Units possess beds, showers, lavatories, and space for storing personal items. Shared kitchen with ample cooking, refrigeration, provided appliances, a common dining area and laundry facilities. All utilities are provided free of charge. Employees residing in housing may have mail directed to their respective addresses.
Meals	Housing is provided at no cost to workers who are not reasonably able to return the same day to their respective residences. Housing is not provided to non-workers. Employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so that workers may prepare their own meals. No charge will be made for the provided beds, appliances, cooking utensils and similar items furnished to workers to whom housing is provided hereunder unless unlawfully removed or damaged beyond normal wear and tear. Employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) weekly transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries. If both male and female workers are hired, separate toilet and shower facilities are available and will be provided by the employer. There is no family housing provided.
Daily transportation	The employer will provide free transportation between the employer’s housing and the worksite for any worker who is provided housing. The use of transportation by the worker is voluntary, and no worker will be required as a condition of employment to utilize the transportation offered by the employer.
Travel to the job	After a worker has completed fifty percent of the work contract period, the employer will reimburse the worker for the cost of transportation and subsistence from the place the worker came from to the place of work, if such costs are borne by the worker.
Pay deductions	The Adverse Effect Wage Rate, the prevailing hourly wage rate, the piece rate, the agreed upon collective bargaining rate, or the federal or state minimum wage rate, whichever is greatest, will be the minimum rate of pay. At the time of submission of this order, the applicable wage is $12.57. The wage rate for H2A workers only is $10.80. The Employer assures that if a change in the AEWR, prevailing hourly wage rate, or federal minimum wage rate requires an increase in the guaranteed minimum, such increase will be paid as of the effective date of the increase. Piece Rates $0.45 Hand harvest peaches, 5/8 bushel $0.15 pruning peach trees $0.15 thinning peach trees

Case number	JO-A-300-26301-328777
Official occupation	Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00)
Posted	Oct 28, 2026

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