agricultural equipment operator

We are currently seeking seasonal workers to assist with our peanut operation, which includes driving farm trucks to haul commodities for our farms. Job duties will involve a wide range of tasks: preparing fields for planting; attaching farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors using bolts and hand tools; operating tractors, planters, sprayers, seed drills, and irrigation equipment; engaging in planting, weeding, spraying, and/or harvesting activities; fertilizing, dusting, and spraying crops, applying fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fung us, weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers; guiding products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines and discarding diseased or rotten products; irrigating soil using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintaining ditches, pipes, and pumps; installing, maintaining, and repairing pivot irrigation systems; loading and unloading crops or materials manually or using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, or transfer augers; loading hoppe rs, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks; manipulating controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery; mixing specified materials or chemicals and dumping solutions, powders, or seeds into machinery; observing and listening to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions; positioning boxes or attaching bags at discharge ends of machin ery to catch products, removing and closing full containers; walking beside or riding on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals; weighing crop-filled containers and recording weights and other identifying information; attaching equipment extensions or accessories; operating equipment to harvest crops; completing maintenance and repairs on irrigation equipment; recording agricultural data; driving far m trucks to haul crops, supplies, and tools; and inspecting, adjusting, and completing routine maintenance and repairs on equipment. The employer, at its sole discretion, grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid $16.50/hr, if that rate exceeds the current published rate.