Job Details
Overview
Languages
• English
Education
• No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
• 5 years or more
Work site environment
• Corn farming
• Hay farming
• Other grain farming
• Other miscellaneous crop farming
• Soybean farming
• Wheat farming
• Dusty
• Noisy
• Outdoors
• Harvest crops
Work setting
• Rural area
Responsibilities:
Tasks
• Greenhouse cleaning
• Harvesting seedlings
• Hoeing crops
• Weeding
• Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
• Manage overall operation of farm
• Organize and co-ordinate planting, cultivating and crop harvesting activities; raising and breeding of livestock and poultry
• Purchase machinery, livestock, seed, feed and other supplies
• Determine the amount and kinds of crops to be grown and livestock to be raised
• Maintain financial and production records
• Perform general farm duties
• Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers
Supervision
• 11-15 people
Experience and specialization:
Type of crops
• Ginseng
• Seed corn
• Soybeans
Equipment and machinery experience
• Automated irrigation system
• Automated manure handling or storage system
• Bulk handling system
• Fertilizer applicator
• Harvesters
• Seed drill
• Sprayer or duster
• Storage and silage system
• Tractor
• Truck
Additional information:
Work conditions and physical capabilities
• Attention to detail
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Fast-paced environment
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Handling heavy loads
• Large workload
• Manual dexterity
• Physically demanding
• Standing for extended periods
• Work under pressure
Personal suitability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Excellent written communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Judgment
• Organized
• Team player
• Values and ethics
How to apply:
By email
cedarholmefarmsrecruitment@gmail.com
How-to-apply instructions
Here is what you must include in your application:
• Cover letter
• Letter of recommendation
• Copy of portfolio or relevant work examples
Job Description
Managers in agriculture plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operations and functions of farms. They are responsible for growing crops, raising and breeding livestock, poultry and other animals, marketing farm products and enhancing farms' sustainability through, notably, the implementation of new technologies.
