Agricultural Worker
Employer: Elly's Acres Farm, LLC
Location: Jamesville, NY
Workers needed: 2
Pay: $16.17/hour
Season: Jan 5, 2027 – Jul 11, 2027
Experience: 1 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Lambing Duties: The primary responsibility of this position is to assist with lambing and overall livestock care, including monitoring and segregating ewes after birthing, providing comprehensive care for newborn lambs such as record keeping, administering vaccinations, castration, tail docking, ear tagging, warming hypothermic lambs, bottle feeding orphaned lambs, and administering minerals and supplements, all while ensuring the general health and well-being of the ewe and lamb flock, and feeding and watering animals daily, including provision of grain and hay twice per day. Daily care and feeding of livestock guardian dogs herding dogs is necessary.
Farm Operational Duties: Additionally, the role involves farm operations and equipment use, including operating a skid steer, tractor, and other farm equipment as needed (e.g., rotary cutter), performing snow plowing with a truck around barns and farm property during winter, setting up barn configurations and relocating animals as needed based on seasonal or management requirements, and cleaning and maintaining barns and animal housing areas. Pasture management and maintenance duties include collecting and processing fallen logs, cutting, splitting (requiring safe chainsaw operation), and stacking firewood, conducting fence inspections and repairs as needed, mowing fields after grazing periods, assisting with rotational grazing of flocks, and assisting with the disposal or composting of deceased livestock, including safe use of equipment for burial.
Marketing and Product Delivery: Responsibilities involve transporting and selling farm products at local markets, including setup and staffing of vendor booths, and assisting with on-farm slaughter and processing of lambs, including transport to slaughterhouses using farm vehicles. Only Elly's Acres products will be handled during any "marketing, product delivery, or transporting" activities. Class D Driver's license required.
Maple Syrup Production: The job duties entail installing and maintaining sap lines and vacuum pumps, tapping trees, collecting sap, and operating reverse osmosis systems and evaporators for syrup production.
Additional Responsibilities: Care for a small poultry flock, possessing a valid driver’s license and being able to operate farm vehicles safely, working shifts alone without supervision the majority of the time, and prioritizing jobs as conditions change on a shift-to-shift basis.
This petition will be a staggered entry. One (1) worker will be requested for January 5, 2027. One (1) worker will be requested for approximately February 10, 2027
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer will furnish free cooking and kitchen facilities to those workers who are entitled to live in the employer's housing so that workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week the employer will offer to provide (on a voluntary bases by the workers) free transportation to assure workers access to the closest store where they can purchase groceries.
Transport: Employer will provide or pay for airline tickets, charter bus services, or other commercial bus service to H-2A or U.S. workers, or permit workers to select any means of transportation that they choose. Employer will reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved. See Addendum C
Experience wanted: 1 months
The job activities described may, in fact, occur earlier and/or later depending on a wide variety of variables including, but not limited to, weather conditions, weather disaster(s), Acts of God, disease pressure, positive or negative market conditions, availability or lack of availability of productions inputs, high or low cost of available inputs, and other factors, that the grower could not reasonably anticipate at the time this application was submitted and is beyond the control of the employer. These could develop and could occur at any time during the course of the growing season. Workers must be able to physically lift up to 75 lbs with assistance. Class D driver's license required. Post-hire drug testing completed upon suspicion.
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