H-2A · Agriculture

Farmworker

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Dennis Topf

Dow City, IA — United States

Job duties

Official text in English.

Job duties include cleaning stalls, pens, and equipment using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps; driving trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed; examining animals to detect illness, injury, disease, or weight changes; feeding and watering livestock and monitoring feed and water supplies; herding livestock to pastures, scales, trucks, or other enclosures; maintaining and repairing equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences; maintaining growth, feeding, production, and cost records; marking livestock using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos; mixing feed, additives, and medicines; moving livestock manually or with trucks or carts; performing reproduction-related duties such as breeding, artificial insemination, and assisting with births; providing medical treatment or arranging veterinary care; segregating animals by weight, age, color, and physical condition; shifting animals between grazing areas to ensure adequate access to food; caring for animals, cleaning facilities, transporting animals, and treating animal injuries or illnesses.

Requirements

Job requires three (3) months previous farm experience, the ability to lift 50 lbs. and a valid regular drivers license

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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