Farm Worker

H2ajobs; Dickens (NE); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transportation assistance

Job summary

H2ajobs in Nebraska seeks an experienced farm laborer to perform a range of livestock and crop support duties on a large operation. You will handle feeding, watering, herding, and routine care of cattle and other farm animals, assisting with births, medications, and routine maintenance.

Housing and meals are provided, with access to kitchen facilities and transportation assistance as per program regulations. Applicants should have minimal prior experience; training is provided on site.

Qualifications

• Experience with livestock care preferred.
• Ability to follow safety instructions.
• Willingness to work outdoors in varying weather.

Responsibilities

• Feeding, watering, herding, castrating, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals.
• Examining animals to detect diseases and injuries.
• Assisting in births and administering medications or vaccines.
• Herding animals to pastures, scales, or enclosures.
• Hauling feed and moving equipment between locations.
• Maintaining housing and fences; cleaning and repairing pens.
• Using farm equipment such as tractors and trucks.
• Reimbursed travel costs; housing and meals provided.

Skills

Animal care

Livestock handling

Farm operations

Tools

Farm equipment

Tractors

Job description

Job duties include but are not limited to:

Feeding, watering, herding, castrating, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals

Examining animals to detect diseases and injuries

Assisting in birthing, administering medications, vaccinations, or insecticides

Assist in herding animals to pastures for grazing or to scales, farm trucks or other enclosures

Hauling feed from trailers to animals

Cutting, raking, baling, hauling, stacking, and storing hay

Maintaining winter animal housing areas; using diggers, shovels and other equipment needed

Segregating animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition

Marking livestock to identify ownership and grade using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos

Mixing feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions

Moving equipment or livestock from one location to another manually or using farm trucks or carts

Ongoing maintenance includes cleaning, maintaining and repair of equipment, various workshop tasks as well as maintenance of fences, feedlot pens, water tanks, and feed equipment.

Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment, which includes the operation of feed trucks, payloaders, semi – truck and tractors.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Housing provided to the workers have fully equipped kitchens where they can prepare and cook their own meals three times a day. The kitchen is fully functional and equipped with appliances such as stove, refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher – all in working condition. The kitchen is equipped with the necessary utensils for prepping and cooking food. Adequate sinks with the warm and cold water under pressure. The employer will ensure that workers have access to a grocery store at least once a week to purchase their own food/produce. Workers have access to vehicles to drive themselves to the grocery stores from the house to the stores and back.

Transport: The Employer will, as per H2A regulations, reimburse the worker for travel cost, including daily subsistence rates stipulated at the time, from the worker’s place of residence to the workplace, and upon contract completion, from the workplace back to the worker’s place of residence at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charge for the distance involved, for example return bus and or airfare.

Experience wanted: 3 months

See Addendum C