Farmworker
Employer: Triple H Farms Inc.
Location: Stratton, CO
Workers needed: 3
Pay: $16.68/hour
Season: Jan 15, 2027 – Nov 15, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
SOC 45-2091 40% of work performed: Employees prepare fields for planting corn, wheat, and sorghum by using tractors with attached tillage equipment and by connecting plows, discs, planters, sprayers, harvesters, and other implements to tractors with bolts and hand tools. They operate tractors, seed drills, planters, sprayers, combines, irrigation equipment, manure spreaders, and other farm machinery to plant, cultivate, weed, spray, and harvest crops, and they apply fertilizer or crop treatments as the operation requires. They install, maintain, and repair pivot irrigation systems and also work with irrigation equipment and associated pipes, ditches, and pumps, completing routine servicing, lubrication, adjustments, inspections, minor repairs, and other maintenance on equipment. They load and unload crops or materials manually or with conveyors, augers, forklifts, or hand tools, and they load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products using forklifts, augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks. During operation they watch and listen for equipment problems, report malfunctions, and drive farm trucks or semi-trucks to move crops, tools, and supplies as specifically assigned, while also recording agricultural data as required. SOC 45-2093 60% of work performed: Employees care for cattle/cow/calf operations by feeding and watering livestock, checking drinking-water supplies, cleaning troughs, tanks, and watering equipment, and mixing feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions before distributing feed using trucks, tractors, or other equipment. They observe animals for illness, injury, distress, abnormal weight gain, or changes in feeding behavior, provide medical treatment or vaccinations as directed, arrange for veterinary care when needed, and separate animals requiring treatment or additional observation. They count, weigh, identify, sort, segregate, mark, and move animals between pastures, pens, barns, handling areas, grazing areas, scales, trucks, and enclosures, and they assist with breeding activities, artificial insemination, pregnancy checks, and birthing while monitoring newborn care. They groom, clip, trim, shear, castrate, dock ears or tails, and otherwise care for animals as needed, load and unload animals for movement or sale, and herd livestock to pastures, scales, trucks, or enclosures, including shifting animals between grazing areas to ensure access to food. They clean pens, stalls, barns, chutes, livestock enclosures, and animal-handling areas, remove animal waste, replace bedding where required, and clean and maintain ponds, tanks, nets, and aquaculture equipment where used. They repair fences, gates, livestock enclosures, watering systems, equipment, machinery, yards, and buildings, operate feeding equipment, tractors, loaders, or farm vehicles used in animal care, and maintain records of animal identification, births, treatments, movements, growth, feeding, production, cost, materials, equipment, and product inventories. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Employer may also, at its sole discretion, offer performance-based incentive bonuses that are not guaranteed and are determined by the employer.
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: 2 months
Job requires a 50 lb lifting requirement. Must possess a valid, standard, non-commercial driver's license (e.g., Class C, D, R, E, F or 3 depending on state). Employee must have 2 months of verifiable experience. No smoking or vaping.
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