Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
Employer: Thomas Valasek
Location: Blair, NE
Workers needed: 1
Pay: $20.56/hour
Season: Dec 1, 2026 – Mar 1, 2027
Experience: 1 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
We need a seasonal employee to assist with our winter calving operation. Our calving season starts in December and runs until March 1. During this time cattle are confined for calving and needs to be fed and cared for daily as well as assistance needs to be provided to help with birthing and deliveries. Calving cows is usually only a short period of time but is labor intensive. After calving is done, no further care is needed since they are released to pastures. Job duties will include: clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps, drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals, examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain, feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies, herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures, mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions, move equipment, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts, order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery, patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles, provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment, shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food, care for animals, clean equipment or facilities, treat animal injuries or illnesses. Employer may provide pay increases for performance, longevity and/or experience at employer’s discretion. Employer will pay additional money to anyone who returns for a subsequent season.
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: 1 months
Employer will conduct post-hire drug tests at no cost to the employee to enforce a drug free workplace policy. Failing a drug test will result in termination. Job requires exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures, extensive pushing or pulling. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. Must have a Class A CDL or equivalent or be able to obtain within 30 days of hire to be able to haul cattle. Require 1 month farm experience. The worker must be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in English, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records.
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