Farm and agricultural worker

Agricultural Field Worker: Wine Grapes in Cazadero, CA

This is an H-2A job order, which means the employer has already applied to hire workers from outside the United States for it.

Employer: Hirsch Vineyards, LLC
Where: Cazadero, CA
Places: 17
Pay: $16.9 per hour
Visa: H-2A
Starts: 2027-01-10
Ends: 2027-11-10
Filed: 2026-11-04

What the work involves

Agricultural Field Worker (Wine Grapes) This job offer includes the following crop activities: Non-Harvest activities include the following: Work in grape vineyards performing non-harvest activities from January through August, and then again after the harvest season from September through November. Workers will perform non-harvest activities including hoeing, pruning, vine suckering, leaf removal, early season crop removal, moving wires, picking, root picking, irrigation, field maintenance, stake removal and replacement, mowing, spraying and discing. Workers will also perform post removal and replacement, drainage, field gutters, and harvest, Plant new vineyard including digging, raking, clean up and post pounding. Use sharp picking knives, standing and kneeling on ground to pick the fruit, brush clearing for wildfire risk mitigation, and occasional groundswork in gardens and the olive orchard. Workers will occasionally (less than 5% of the time), perform minor maintenance activities, such as painting and cleaning. Daily work requires lifting, bending, kneeling, walking and carrying up to 50 pound trays. Work in cold, hot, windy and damp weather. Work hours vary and night shifts may be required. Hoeing is conducted using a wooden handled hoe which is approximately 54 inches long while standing. Slight bending may be required but employees will not be kneeling. Hoeing is conducted in the vineyards in between the vines. Weeding includes using approximately the same 54-inch hoe tools as stated above while standing with some minor bending. Hoeing is conducted in the vineyards in between the vines. Employees will work under close supervision of a Supervisor and receive specific instructions on required tasks and results expected. Employees perform routine tasks that require a limited exercise of judgment to eventually build harvesting skills and efficiencies. On-the-job training is provided as specified below. Use standard and basic tools such as rakes, hoes (wooden handled hoe which is approximately 54 inches long while standing) and shovels. Workers may occasionally and/or sporadically perform duties associated with and directly related to wine grape field and non-harvest work including, but not limited to: packing, closing/stacking boxes in and around the vineyard, and clean-up functions in and around the vineyard. Such work will be temporary and insubstantial agricultural labor and will be performed less than 50% of the work days. Harvest activities include the following: The harvest season occurs from August through mid-September. During that time period workers will perform harvest labor, which consists of picking and packing grapes in the vineyard.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Seasonal Jobs.

What that comes to in a month

At forty hours a week, the rate in this filing works out at about $2,924 a month before tax. That is the standard full-time month of 173 hours; overtime, deductions and the cost of getting there are not in it.

How the work permit works in the United States

Employer-sponsored temporary or permanent labor certification. The employer files with the Department of Labor first. Which programme applies depends on the work and whether it is seasonal.

Published by U.S. Department of Labor, foreign labor certification