- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals. Examine animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical characteristic, such as rate of weight gain. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions, Inspect, maintain and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. Move equipment or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, and/or pumps. Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks or other enclosures. May be required to separate/sort livestock according to size and weight. Workers may be required to apply ID tags.
Attend to live farm, and ranch animals that may include cattle, horses and other equines. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas.
Cleans plows, combines, and tractors using scraper and broom. Stacks loose hay, using pitchfork or pitches hay into automatic bailing machine. Stacks bales of hay and loads them onto wagon or truck using a handbook. Workers must be able to work in a bent over position for long periods of time, clearing property, caring wire, posts, and hand tools long distances across rough terrain. Worker must be able to climb ladders and fence. Worker will use hand tools to maintain living area that is used during breeding and birthing process. Clear off farmland to increase planting acreage during spring planting season.
Hay: Workers will plant, cultivate, and harvest. When harvesting, workers must load hay bales weighting up to 60 lbs. from farm to tractor-trailers via a conveyor. Stacks hay on conveyor and restack in trailer according to instructions. Hay harvested is dropped at end of conveyor. Using hay hooks, worker places bales on conveyor while other workers in the barn stack hay in hay/mow according to direction. Hay and straw harvested averages about 2500 bales per day.
Corn: Workers will perform a variety of manual tasks appropriate for grain crops being planted cultivated and harvested. Workers will help in preparing the land for planting. This may include attaching farm implements such as a plow, disc, and drill to tractor. May drive a tractor in field to till soil in preparation of planting. Worker may apply various types of fertilizer to the soil and plants. These bags can weigh between 60-75 lbs. Workers may cultivate and thin crops using a hoe, removing grass by hand or with a hoe. Workers will remove undesirable and excess growth, such as tassel, suckers, and weeds by hand. Carries supplies such as bags and bailing wires to the fields. Clears irrigation ditches, using shovel. Workers may husk and shell corn. Loads and unloads trucks, unloads grain onto conveyors to storage bins or elevators. Cleans and lubricates farm machines.
Farm Equipment Operation: Workers may be required to operate tractors, trucks, and other farm equipment during daily operations, as an incidental activity. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals