Ranch Hand and Livestock Worker
Employer: LC Cattle
Location: Hayes Center, NE
Workers needed: 2
Pay: $20.56/hour
Season: Nov 4, 2026 – Aug 1, 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
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.
Repair fences, dig post holes, install and remove electrical fences.
Rake and bale hay
Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment
Drive farm trucks, tractors, and other farming equipment to distribute food to cattle
Receive and place stocker cattle and cows on wheat and corn stalks for grazing
Pull cattle off stalks and other grazed crops
Gather cattle and move cattle with 4-wheelers and stock trailers
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Housing provided to the worker has a fully equipped kitchen where the worker can prepare and cook his own meals three times a day. The kitchen is 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 the worker has access to a grocery store at least once a week to purchase own food/produce. The worker has access to a vehicle to drive 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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