Ranch Hand

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

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Travel reimbursement

Job summary

H2ajobs in Brady, Nebraska seeks farm labor workers to assist with animal care on a seasonal basis. The role includes feeding, watering, herding, and handling livestock, as well as routine inspections and administering medications under supervision.

Housing and meals are provided, with employer-arranged travel reimbursement per H-2A regulations. Prior farming experience is beneficial but not required; training will be provided on site.

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.
• 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 grain bins and general buildings.
• Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment.
• Maintaining records, as required by the various relevant entities, clients and inhouse management.
• Receive and place stocker cattle on corn stalks for grazing.
• Installing/removing electric fence on cornstalks.
• Pull cattle off stalks (prior to planting).
• Sell cattle, move cattle with stock trailer.
• Transport: The Employer will 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.

Job description

Job duties include the following 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

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 grain bins and general buildings

Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment

Maintaining records, as required by the various relevant entities, clients and inhouse management

Receive and place stocker cattle on corn stalks for grazing.

Installing/removing electric fence on cornstalks.

Pull cattle off stalks (prior to planting).

Sell cattle, move cattle with stock trailer.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Housing provided to the workers has a fully equipped kitchen where the worker can prepare and cook his 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 the worker have access to a grocery store at least once a week to purchase his own food/produce. The worker has access to a vehicle to drive 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