Farmworker
Employer: Philip Halbach
Location: Woolstock, IA
Workers needed: 1
Pay: $15.50/hour
Season: Jan 10, 2027 – Oct 15, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
SOC 45-2091 — 10% of work performed. Employees will prepare fields for planting using tractors and attached tillage equipment, connect plows, discs, planters, sprayers, harvesters, and other implements to tractors, operate tractors, seed drills, planters, sprayers, combines, and other agricultural machinery, load or unload crops and farm materials using conveyors, augers, forklifts, or hand tools, feed crops or materials into hoppers, conveyors, and agricultural processing equipment, watch and listen for equipment problems during operation and report malfunctions, drive farm trucks or semi-trucks to move crops, tools, and supplies as specifically assigned, inspect equipment and perform routine servicing, lubrication, adjustments, and minor repairs, record agricultural work completed and other required operating information, and complete routine repairs and maintenance on equipment in support of the crop work involving corn and rye. SOC 45-2093 — 90% of work performed. Employees will prepare feed mixtures and distribute feed to cattle/cow/calf groups, check drinking-water supplies and clean troughs, tanks, and watering equipment, observe animals for illness, injury, distress, or changes in feeding behavior, count, weigh, identify, and sort animals into designated groups, move animals between pastures, pens, barns, and handling areas, assist with breeding activities and pregnancy checks as directed, monitor animals during birthing and assist with newborn care, apply identification tags and assist with vaccinations or other prescribed animal-care procedures, separate animals requiring treatment or additional observation, load and unload animals for movement or sale, clean pens, stalls, barns, chutes, and animal-handling areas, remove animal waste and replace bedding where required, repair fences, gates, livestock enclosures, and watering systems, operate feeding equipment, tractors, loaders, or farm vehicles used in animal care, maintain records of animal identification, births, treatments, and movements, take primary daily responsibility for feeding assigned pens of calves and checking each assigned group of cows and calves at least twice daily; monitor feed, water, behavior and health and promptly report concerns, maintain clean, dry and comfortable bedding throughout summer and winter; clean pens and manage manure, keep barns, pens, farmyards and pastures clean and presentable through sweeping, picking pens, fence and gate repairs, tree and limb cleanup, painting and general upkeep, safely operate skid loader for feed, bedding and manure handling; tractor and feed wagon for feeding; and tractor and manure spreader for manure management, following training and authorization, learn and assist with show cattle handling, washing, drying and grooming; support breeding and calving work under supervision, and participate in scheduled evening or nighttime calving watch, monitoring labor and newborn calves and promptly reporting complications. The operation is a show cattle operation with many smaller groups to feed and maintain, and work shifts with the seasons so that when cattle are out to grass in late fall the position is needed less, while the busy periods center on caring for cattle, calves, pastures, fences, feed systems, and the day-to-day oversight needed to keep the herd located, healthy, and properly managed. 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 frequent stooping or bending over and a 60 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.
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