Farmworker
Employer: Carlson Angus Ranch
Location: Regent, ND
Workers needed: 3
Pay: $19.99/hour
Season: Jan 10, 2027 – Nov 10, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
SOC 45-2093 — 100% of work performed. Employees will carry out daily livestock care centered on cattle/cow/calf operations by preparing feed mixtures, filling feed troughs, operating feeding equipment, and distributing feed while monitoring feed and water supplies, checking drinking-water supplies, maintaining heated water where needed, and cleaning troughs, tanks, watering equipment, stalls, pens, barns, chutes, and other animal-handling areas. They will observe animals for illness, injury, distress, disease, or changes in feeding behavior; examine them for physical condition and weight gain; separate animals requiring treatment or additional observation; provide medical treatment such as medications and vaccinations; apply identification tags; and assist with breeding activities, pregnancy checks, artificial insemination, and animal births. During the calving period they will calve out cows, monitor birthing, and care for calves and nursing mothers, while also counting, weighing, identifying, sorting, segregating, and moving animals into designated groups based on weight, age, color, and physical condition, including weighing cattle and moving them to appropriate pens. Employees will move cattle between pastures, pens, barns, handling areas, and summer grazing pastures, confine livestock, load and unload animals for movement or sale, and transport equipment or livestock from one location to another. They will spray livestock with insecticide, groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, and assist with newborn care as directed. They will clean animal waste, replace bedding where required, repair fences, gates, livestock enclosures, and watering systems, and maintain equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, and yards, including general servicing, shop work, basic mechanical tasks, and truck driving such as hauling supplies or driving a pick-up truck to town for cattle supplies on occasion. Work also includes operating tractors, loaders, farm vehicles, and other farming equipment used in animal care, operating snow removal equipment to support feed wagon use, and performing haying duties. In addition to the livestock work, employees will operate farming equipment to seed, plant, harvest, and haul grain crops, including corn, wheat, rye, and alfalfa, while carrying out general farm related duties that support the overall operation. Employer may also, at its sole discretion, offer performance-based incentive bonuses that are not guaranteed and are determined by the employer. Employer may, at its sole discretion, provide pay increases based on longevity or experience. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid at their 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
Job requires exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures, extensive sitting or walking, repetitive movements, and 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). Employer will conduct post-hire criminal background checks at no cost to the employee and will not employ anyone with a felony/theft criminal background as required by the workplace safety policy and company HR hiring practices as allowed by law. 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. Employee must have 3 months of verifiable experience.
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