IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING WAGES FOR TEMPORARY AGRICULTURAL JOBS
The Department of Labor recently announced new minimum wage rates, called Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs), that employers must offer and pay, at the time work is performed, to nonimmigrant H-2A workers and workers in corresponding employment beginning on the effective date of the new wage rates. To see the new hourly AEWRs for non-range occupations (effective January 1, 2023) and the national monthly AEWR for herding or production of livestock work on the range (effective January 1, 2023), please visit: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages/adverse-effect-wage-rates
Farm and Ranch Worker
Meisner Beef, LLC
Sterling, CO
$16.34 per hour
Recruitment Information
- Telephone Number to Apply:
- +19705804463
- Email address to Apply:
- elainermeisner@gmail.com
Job Description
- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- Attend to farm/ranch/open range that includes cattle. Attend to beef animals produced for animal products, such as meat , and for increasing the herd(raising calves). Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, castrating, branding, de-horning, doctoring, loading animals, and monitoring during calving season and assisting with calving when necessary. A farm and ranch worker 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. Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies. Herd livestock to pastures or grazing or to trucks for transportation to grazing land. Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease. After care of cow/calf, monitor the ability of the cow to properly “mother” her calf and her calf to properly respond. Calving season is February through May . When calving season starts, monitor the cows and heifers every 2-4 hours, more often if freezing weather. If calf is in distress and cold, bring to the barn and put in the warming box and give colostrum and warm the calf up. Inspect and maintain equipment, including changing oil, checking fluids in the radiator, brakefluid, etc. Putting out mineral and salt when needed. Feeding bales of hay.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
The job/industry classification and description includes general information on the position from ONET/OES and the North American Industry Classification System. Please review Job Duties and Job Order for more information.
Job Requirements
- Experience Required:
- Yes
- Months of Experience Required:
- 6
- Special Requirements:
- 6 months job experience as a farm and ranch worker. References are required (3).
- Number of Hours Per Week:
- 35
- Work Schedule (Start/End time):
- 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Employer Information
- Company Name:
- Meisner Beef, LLC
- Location:
- Sterling, CO 80751
- Telephone Number:
- +19705804463
Worksite
- Address:
- 19455 County Road 36, Sterling, CO 80751
Job Order Details
- ETA Case Number:
- H-300-23202-207247
- Multiple Worksites:
- No
- Date Posted:
- 8/22/2023