Farm Worker / Clay B Jones Position Available In Macon, Tennessee
Tallo's Job Summary: Farm Worker position at Clay B Jones involves seeding, transplanting, cultivating, cutting tobacco, and performing general farm tasks. Workers must be physically fit and able to work from July 15, 2025, to January 15, 2026. Tasks include harvesting, topping plants, and stripping leaves for baling. Basic farm maintenance is also expected.
Job Description
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UNTIL, July 15, 2025.APPLICANT
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All workers should be physically able to meet and perform the work outlined in the contract for the entire period of time from 07/15/2025 to 1/15/2026. Workers will seed, transplant, cultivate, cut, house and strip tobacco. May also prepare barns and land, do maintenance of tools and equipment related to job. Worker should be able to bend, stoop and stand on their feet for long periods of time.
Workers will be performing jobs pertaining to harvesting burley or dark tobacco. They may chop out the weeds between the rows of tobacco plants and topping the top couple of inches from the plants that flower/bloom out and removing any suckers. cutting tobacco consists of using metal tobacco knives and cutting the tobacco plants at the bottom of the stalks and placing them in piles of 5 or 6 (depending on the size of the plants) and then coming back to put those piles of stalks onto wooden tobacco sticks using a metal spike and standing the stick upright in the fields. After a few days of drying out in the sun, the sticks will be loaded onto wagons/trailers, and taking to the barns to be hung onto tear poles inside the barns. After several weeks of drying/curing out in the barns, the sticks will be taken down and stalks removed from the sticks and placed into large piles for stripping. Stripping consists of removing the leaves from the stalks and sorting them by looks and colors for grading. The leaves are later placed into large baling machines that compress the leaves into bales, weighing 600 pounds, and labeled. Workers will do basic farm jobs, (cleaning out or repairing barb wire fencing, mowing, weed eating, cleaning equipment, etc.) during the between times of tobacco processes, to help ensure their 3/4 guaranteed hours of their contracts. Lifting 50 to 60 pounds, climbing, walking, bending, and repeated movements are all requirements of tobacco labor workers.
