Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch and Aquacultural Animals
Employer: Connealy Ranch
Location: Whitman, NE
Workers needed: 10
Pay: $20.56/hour
Season: Nov 14, 2026 – Aug 31, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Job duties include but are not limited to:
Feeding, watering, herding, castrating, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals
Examining animals to detect diseases and injuries
Assisting in birthing, administering medications, vaccinations, or insecticides
Assist in herding animals to pastures for grazing or to scales, farm trucks or other enclosures
Hauling feed from trailers to animals
Maintaining winter animal housing areas; using diggers, shovels and other equipment needed
Ongoing maintenance includes cleaning, maintaining and repair of equipment, various workshop tasks as well as maintenance of fences, feedlot pens, water tanks, and feed equipment.
Segregating animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition
Marking livestock to identify ownership and grade using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos
Mixing feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions
Moving equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another manually or using farm trucks or carts
Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment, which includes the operation of feed trucks, payloaders, semi – truck and tractors.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Housing provided to the workers have fully equipped kitchen(s) where they can prepare and cook their own meals three times a day. The kitchens are fully functional and equipped with appliances such as stove, refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher – all in working condition. The kitchen is equipped with the necessary utensils for prepping and cooking food. Adequate sinks with the warm and cold water under pressure. The employer will ensure that workers have access to a grocery store at least once a week to purchase their own food/produce. Workers have access to vehicles to drive themselves to the grocery stores from the house to the stores and back.
Transport: The Employer will, as per H2A regulations, reimburse the worker for travel cost, including daily subsistence rates stipulated at the time, from the worker’s place of residence to the workplace, and upon contract completion, from the workplace back to the worker’s place of residence at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charge for the distance involved, for example return bus and or airfare.
Experience wanted: 3 months
See Addendum C
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