H-2A · Agriculture

Farmworker

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Witt's End Farms

Valparaiso, IN — United States

Job duties

Official text in English.

We need seasonal employees to assist with our calving season, which begins in December and ends in April. During this time, cattle are confined for calving and require daily care and feeding. After the season ends, no daily care is needed. Cattle duties are only required during this timeframe due to our scheduled calving periods. Employees will tend to livestock during the winter months when the cattle cannot be on pasture grazing. The job also involves removing snow in the winter months. Since cattle are not on pasture during the winter, they require significantly more work, including feeding them hay, as the grass is dead and often covered in snow. Duties include feeding and watering livestock; monitoring food and water supplies; mixing feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions; and ordering and distributing feed using trucks, tractors, or other equipment. Employees will examine animals to detect illness, injury, disease, or abnormal weight gain. Additional tasks include herding livestock to pastures, scales, trucks, or enclosures; shifting animals between grazing areas to ensure access to food; patrolling grazing lands on horseback or ATV; and moving livestock, equipment, or poultry between locations manually or using vehicles. We also need employee to operate excavating equipment on our own farms, cleaning up trees and ditches to maintain the grounds. Employer may provide pay increases for performance, longevity and/or experience at employer’s discretion, Employer may provide performance bonuses at the end of the contract at the employer’s discretion.

Requirements

Job requires exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Must have a regular driver's license. Require 3 months experience.

Housing

Family housing not available. Housing will be clean & meet applicable Fed, State &local housing standards. Workers must maintain neat & clean housing. Housing/utilities are provided at no cost to workers who are unable to return to place of residence the same day. If both male & female workers are hired: separate toilet, bathing and sleeping rooms will be provided.

Transportation

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.

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