Job Details

General Farm Work

This job was posted by Idaho Works. Consultants, please conduct a seated interview. Applicants must have 20 days experience with farm, irrigation work, and livestock care, and provide the contact information of at least one reference who can verify experience and performance. Applicants must be able to lift up to 90 pounds. Dates of need are (3/1/2026 11/15/2026). This order is for work in the Jerome, Idaho area.

General farm work will include the following responsibilities:

• Maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements/tractors/equipment to till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize, and harvest crops
• Make minor mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery
• May mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable)
• Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops or farm grounds
• Remove rocks from field
• Paint/repair/maintain farm structures
• Maintain/repair fencing
• Perform general cleanup of farm areas
• Drive, load/unload Ag exempt, non CDL semi/10-wheel trucks
• Transport crops from field to storage and/or market
• Operate motor bike or all-terrain vehicle in the course of performing duties
• Hoist/stack bales of hay onto wagon/truck
• Workers possessing the proper licensure may be asked to transport other farm workers

Irrigation duties will include the following:

• Hand lines: connect pipes; check alignment of pipe and adjust for proper water distribution; attach lines to water supply; turn on pump; turn valves to start flow of water; disassemble lines and carry pipes across fields at specified intervals; move pipes through freshly irrigated crops and/or plowed fields where mud may be deep at times; lift and carry pipe sections weighing approximately 40 pounds on a sustained basis.
• Wheel lines: start gasoline engines and operate controls to move lines across fields at specified intervals.
• Pivots: operate, maintain and repair system.
• Other irrigation duties: remove pipes/wheel lines from storage and lay out/place in predetermined patterns in fields; lubricate, adjust, repair, and replace parts such as sprinkler heads and drive chains using hand tools; observe revolving sprinklers and adjust to ensure proper operation and uniform distribution of water; disassemble, service, and store pipes/mainlines/wheel lines after irrigation season.

Incidental duties related to the production of livestock will include the following:

• Herd livestock; move from corral to pasture and back to corrals
• Mix feed/additives and feed/water livestock
• Place mineral blocks