H-2A · Agriculture

Ranch Hand

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Farming Friends, Inc.

Johnson City, KS — United States

Job duties

Official text in English.

Employee will be working with a winter stocker operation that purchases light weight calves, runs them on winter wheat, and then backgrounds them. Job description includes analyzing cattle health and providing appropriate treatment, daily feeding, maintaining fresh water supplies, and providing appropriate animal weather protection. Details include cattle vaccination, cattle weight monitoring, cattle identification protocols, maintaining fences and utilizing and maintaining appropriate equipment for the above-mentioned operations. We buy stocker calves/cattle in the fall for December delivery. Once those calves arrive, they must be processed, fed and care for during the winter period. All stocker cattle are sold in March and no further care or help would be needed until the following season. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid at the previous season’s rate if that rate exceeds the current published rate.

Requirements

Must have a regular drivers license. Job requires extensive sitting, pushing, pulling, and exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Requires 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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