Livestock Farmworker: Ranch & Aquaculture Care

H2ajobs; Whitman (NE); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transport reimbursement

Job summary

H2ajobs in Nebraska is seeking a farm laborer to perform a wide range of animal care and maintenance tasks. Responsibilities include feeding, weighing, branding, birthing assistance, administering medications, and moving animals between locations.

The role requires basic animal-handling skills and a willingness to learn safety protocols. Additional duties cover equipment maintenance, housing and meals provided, and employer reimbursement of travel costs per H-2A regulations.

Qualifications

• Experience in farm work and animal handling.
• Ability to operate basic farm equipment is a plus.
• Willingness to learn and follow safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Maintaining winter animal housing areas; using diggers, shovels and other equipment needed
• 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.
• 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, poultry, or livestock from one location to another manually or using farm trucks or carts
• 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 kitchen(s) where they can prepare and cook their own meals three times a day. The kitchens are 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

Skills

Farming experience

Job description

H2ajobs in Nebraska is seeking a farm laborer to perform a wide range of animal care and maintenance tasks. Responsibilities include feeding, weighing, branding, birthing assistance, administering medications, and moving animals between locations.

The role requires basic animal-handling skills and a willingness to learn safety protocols. Additional duties cover equipment maintenance, housing and meals provided, and employer reimbursement of travel costs per H-2A regulations.