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Dates of Need: 4/5/2025-10/20/2025. This position will primarily include operating and installing irrigation systems for a row crop farm which may include wheat, sweet corn seed, silage corn, grains and onions. Duties will include install various types of irrigation systems, maintain those irrigation systems, routinely assure that systems are operating correctly, tracking water needs for various crops and scheduling water applications. Will also perform other general irrigation duties and general farm labor. The position will also operate tractors and other agriculture equipment and vehicles when needed. At least three months of agricultural equipment operation and repair and maintenance of row crop irrigation systems is required. May assist in various harvest activities for row crops such as operating and moving harvest equipment and off-loading crops. Workers with a valid drivers license may drive vehicles to transport crop, supplies, equipment,\ and workers. This job requires a minimum of (3) months of general farm labor. The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.

The anticipated hours listed represent the normal work schedule. Due to the nature of these crops, weather, and the requirement to send crops to customers when needed, it is the prevailing practice to work more or different hours than those listed. When the number of hours for a week exceeds the number listed, the worker may be offered, but not required, to work more hours. Saturday work may be required. Field work begins at assigned time shortly after daylight. Work may be performed during rain, light snow, cold, freezing temperatures and/or in high humidity and in temperatures over a 100 degrees F. Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew/rain and should have suitable clothing for variable weather conditions.\ Workers job duties may require split shifts (e.g. 5:00 am to 10:00am and 5:00pm to 8:00pm), as well as night shifts due to crop demands. Work hours may vary were there are periods when extra hours are offered and periods of reduced hours are available due to weather, crop conditions, and time of year. Work schedule and hours may vary according to shipping and crop needs.

Full Growing Season Commitment: The job offered requires that the worker be available for work every day that work is available for the full period of employment. The\ worker agrees to be available for work and perform the assigned work for the assigned employer whenever work is available through the full period of employment.\ Training: There will be a demonstration period to familiarize workers with job specification and to demonstrate proper methods and other crop specific issues.

Irigation Duties:\ Hand Lines:\ 1.Connect pipes.\ 2.Check the alignment of pipe and adjust for proper water distribution.\ 3.Attach lines to water supply.\ 4.Turn on pump.\ 5.Turn valves to start flow of water.\ 6.Disassemble lines and carry pipes across fields at specified intervals.\ 7.Move pipes through freshly irrigated crop and/or plowed fields where mud may be deep at times.\ 8.Lift and carry pipe sections weighing approximately 60 pounds on a sustained basis.\ Flood Irrigation:\ 1.Lift gate inside of flooded irrigation ditch/pipe permitting water to flow into bordered section of field.\ 2.Shovel and pack dirt in low spots of embankment of cut trenches in high areas to direct water flow.\ 3.Close gates in ditch/pipe when bordered section is flooded.\ 4.Open gate or connect pipe to underground pipe system that releases water flow into reservoir or ditch.\ 5.Siphon water from flooded reservoir or ditch to channel water into designated areas.\ 6.Shovel or hoe soil to clear ditches/furrows and build embankments to appropriately channel water.\ 7.Mix and apply proper solutions to fill holes/cracks in pipes, ditches, and spillways, and make minor repairs to metal, concrete, and wooden frameworks in pipe and ditch valves and gates.\ Drip Irrigation:\ 1.Worker will lay drip tape and remove drip tape in fields during the growing season. They will inspect, monitor, and repair drip system daily including filter systems and flushing systems.\ Pivot Irrigation:\ 1.Push on switch that activates circle sprinkler system.\ 2.Turn on/off pivots.\ 3.Learn and master operating a pivot.\ 4.If a pivot is stuck, get it unstuck and in operating condition.\ 5.Roll up/unroll pivot hoses.\ 6.Unplug plugged up nozzles.\ 7.Unplug plugged up hoses.\ 8.Replace broken nozzles and hoses.

Oher Irrigation Duties:\ 1.Remove pipes/wheel lines from storage and lay out/place in predetermined patterns in fields.\ 2.Lubricate, adjust, repair, and replace parts such as sprinkler heads and drive chains using hand tools.\ 3.Observe revolving sprinklers and adjust to ensure proper operation and uniform distribution of water.\ 4.Disassemble, service, and store pipe/mainlines/wheel lines after irrigation season.\ 5.To meet minimum acceptable performance standards when irrigating, the worker must, after a 10-day conditioning period, move an average of at least 48 40-foot sections of 3-inch pipe per hour under normal working conditions.\ 6.Repairing and m