Ranch Hand
Employer: Farming Friends, Inc.
Location: Johnson City, KS
Workers needed: 2
Pay: $19.71/hour
Season: Dec 1, 2026 – Mar 1, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Employee will be working with a winter stocker operation that purchases light weight calves, runs them on winter wheat, and then backgrounds them. Job description includes analyzing cattle health and providing appropriate treatment, daily feeding, maintaining fresh water supplies, and providing appropriate animal weather protection. Details include cattle vaccination, cattle weight monitoring, cattle identification protocols, maintaining fences and utilizing and maintaining appropriate equipment for the above-mentioned operations. We buy stocker calves/cattle in the fall for December delivery. Once those calves arrive, they must be processed, fed and care for during the winter period. All stocker cattle are sold in March and no further care or help would be needed until the following season. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid at the previous season’s rate if that rate exceeds the current published rate.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and space for food preparation, as well as the necessary equipment, appliances (including refrigeration),cooking accessories, and dish washing facilities (e.g., adequate sinks with hot and cold water under pressure) that are in working condition and will be used by workers to sufficiently prepare three (3) meals a day. Employer will offer free transportation to town for personal services (i.e. banking, groceries) at least once per week for non range workers.
Transport: 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.
Experience wanted: 3 months
Must have a regular drivers license. Job requires extensive sitting, pushing, pulling, and exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Requires 3 months experience.
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