Farmworker

H2ajobs; Syracuse (KS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transportation to town

Job summary

H2ajobs in Kansas seeks a farmhand to care for cattle during the winter calving season (Dec–May). Duties include tending cows, feeding cornstalks, checking and water supply, and assisting with birthing, tagging calves, and water hauling.

The role requires lifting up to 50 lbs and a regular driver’s license. Housing, meals, and town transportation are provided; pay increases/bonuses possible at employer’s discretion.

Qualifications

• 3 months experience required.
• Must lift up to 50 lbs.
• Regular driver's license required.

Responsibilities

• Care for cattle confined during winter calving (Dec–May).
• Feed cornstalks and provide fresh water; check cows daily.
• Assist with calf birth, pulling calves, tagging, and doctoring newborns.
• Haul water, break ice, and supplement minerals as needed.
• Haul manure, grind hay, and perform routine farm duties.

Skills

Cattle handling

Livestock care

Driver's license

Job description

We have cattle that will need to be cared for through the winter calving season, from December to the beginning of May. While confined for calving, they will be on cornstalks for feeding and moved to a dry lot at the farm base. There they will be confined for calving until I send them to pasture. We only need care for cattle while confined for this period. Duties include tending to the cattle, feeding cornstalks, checking, and filling water, checking the cows, and doctoring when needed. In February, the cows will need to be hauled to a dry lot where they will need hay daily. When they start calving, cows will need to be checked a minimum of 3 times a day. Employees duties will include assisting with pulling a calf, birthing and deliveries, doctoring babies, and tagging calves after birth, and hauling water to the confinement corrals, breaking ice to make sure they have access to water, and supplementing minerals in their feed. In March, they will get branded and get another vaccination before they are sent to summer pasture in May. Once on pasture, cattle graze for feeding and no care is needed until the next calving season. Employees will need to haul and spread the manure from the confinement area to clean out the pens. Employees will need ot assist with grinding hay to feed animals. Employees will complete general farm duties as assigned. Employer may provide pay increases for performance and experience at employer’s discretion. Employer may provide performance bonuses at the end of the contract at the employer’s discretion.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and space for food preparation, as well as the necessary equipment, appliances (including refrigeration),cooking accessories, and dish washing facilities (e.g., adequate sinks with hot and cold water under pressure) that are in working condition and will be used by workers to sufficiently prepare three (3) meals a day. Employer will offer free transportation to town for personal services (i.e. banking, groceries) at least once per week for non range workers.

Transport: The employer will pay the worker for reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad to the place of employment (inbound/outbound). The employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved.

Experience wanted: 3 months

Job requires extensive walking, sitting, pushing, pulling, repetitive movements, and frequent stooping. Employer will conduct post-hire drug tests at no cost to the employee to enforce a drug free workplace policy. Failing a drug test will result in termination. Employer will conduct post-hire criminal background checks at no cost to the employee and will not employ anyone with a felony/theft criminal background as required by the workplace safety policy and company HR hiring practices as allowed by law. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Job requires a regular drivers license.. Requires 3 months experience.