Farmer

About the role

The Farmer ensures the delivery of safe, high‑quality crops that meet customer requirements by assisting other members of the farm team in planting, growing, harvesting and shipping crops grown by WPF. This role integrates best practices, manages critical control points, and applies data‑driven decision‑making to optimize crop quality, storage value, and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Experience in crop production
• Experience with watering practices
• Experience with chemical applications
• Experience operating heavy vehicles

Responsibilities

• Seed and Storage: Assist the farm team with all aspects of seed preparation, including storing, cutting, and preparing seed for planting.
• Planting: Support field preparation, equipment preparation, planting operations, and any other duties required for appropriately planting crops.
• Growing Season: Perform operations to grow crops that meet customer expectations, such as watering, applying pesticides and herbicides, fertilizing, conducting yield digs and petiole samples, maintaining irrigation and fields, and conducting quality checks.
• Harvesting and Storing: Assist with equipment operations, storage line operations, potato truck driving, and quality checks during harvest and storage.
• Post‑Harvest: Support field and equipment maintenance, storage building upkeep, crop quality monitoring, shipping assistance, and crop movement after harvest.
• SOP Development and Management: Help update, review, revise, and maintain standard operating procedures across all farm activities.
• Data Management, Analysis and Reporting: Collect, analyze, and report all farm‑related data.
• Planning: Prepare annual reviews of previous years’ farming information and assist in creating future budget and strategic plans.
• Miscellaneous Operational Support: Perform duties such as loading/unloading potato samples, seasonal scooping, piling, grading, sorting foreign materials on conveyors, operating and shutting down lines during variety changes, and operating agricultural equipment (e.g., tractors) as needed.

Physical Demands

This position is approximately 10% sedentary and 90% active in indoor and outdoor manufacturing and agricultural environments. It requires the ability to ascend/descend ladders, stairs, and equipment; move into various positions, including tight or confined spaces; bend, stoop, squat, kneel, and reach or lift objects above the shoulder; walk on firm, uneven, or soft terrain; lift up to 50 pounds (and occasionally more with team assistance); communicate verbally and in writing; repeat hand and wrist motions; operate machinery, power tools, vehicles, and heavy equipment; visually inspect work at near and far distances with peripheral vision and depth perception; and sit for extended periods.

Environmental Conditions

Physical activities may occur indoors (office, shop, production areas) and outdoors (fields, storage areas) and may involve exposure to low and high temperatures, precipitation, wind, noise, chemicals or pesticides, dust or poor ventilation, and low or limited light conditions.

Wysocki Family Farms is an EEO employer.