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This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2247890

Dates of Need: 10/7/2024-5/28/2025.

The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.\ Three months farm and/or ranch experience required.\ Job duties include farm and ranch laborer and agricultural equipment operator.\ The anticipated hours listed represent the normal work schedule. Due to the nature of this work, crops, livestock, weather, and the requirement of calving season, it is the prevailing practice to work more or different hours than those listed.\ A worker may be offered more than the specified hours of work; however the worker will not be required to work for more than the number of hours specified in the job order, or on the worker\'s Sabbath or Federal holidays. Saturday work may be required.\ Employer-paid drug test may be required if a worker has an accident at work.\ Workday start times vary depending on the weather. depending on the time of year, hours of daylight, and production requirements. Workers must be able to work varying shifts as required by the season and work performed. Workers are notified of any change in the start times. Work may be performed during rain, snow, cold, freezing temperatures and/or in high humidity and in temperatures over a 100 degrees F. Worker may be required to work in wet and muddy conditions and should have suitable clothing for variable weather conditions.\ Worker must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the job duties throughout the workday. Workers must work at a sustained, vigorous pace and make bona-fide efforts to work efficiently and consistently that are reasonable under the climatic and all other working conditions.\ Worker may never ride on agricultural equipment not designed for work related riding purposes or any other non-passenger intended equipment unless instructed and authorized by the employer or supervisor to do so.\ All work-related injuries must be immediately reported to the crew leader, foreman, or supervisor.\ If light duty work is assigned for a worker\'s compensation injury, the worker will be expected to return to work and perform the light duty work upon advice from a physician and the workers compensation insurance company\ Full Crop/Livestock Seasonal Commitment: The job offered requires that the worker be available for work every day that work is available for the full period of employment. The worker agrees to be available for work and perform the assigned work for the assigned employer whenever work is available through the full period of employment.

Workers who possess a valid driver\'s license and be insurable may drive vehicles to transport crop/feed, equipment and workers.\ The calf cycle is seasonal in nature and begins in approximately September until June with calving in September and February. Workers are needed help to move hay and feed products, feed cows and calves, help move cattle from one area to another (pasture and meadows) and help in the general welfare of young calves.

Other job duties include:\ Feedlot worker:\ 1. Operate feed truck, feed wagon, tractor, front end loader, skid steer and dump truck.\ 2. Loading, mixing and dispersing feed into feed bunks for cattle with feed trucks and or feed wagons.\ 3. Opening bags of bakery waste so that it can be included in mixed ration for cattle.\ 4. Loading and hauling manure with front end loader and dump truck.\ 5. Scraping and cleaning pens with skid steer and front-end loader.\ 6. Examine animals for disease and injuries.\ 7. Assisting with vaccinations and treatment of animals using approved veterinary products with syringes and hypodermic needles.\ 8. Moving and penning cattle.\ 9. General maintenance and cleanup of feedlot facilities including sweeping, washing, hauling off debris and using blowers.\ Cow-Calf worker:\ 1. Attending to live beef cattle. 2. Duties include, feeding, watering, herding, grazing, castrating, branding, tagging, weighing, catching, loading, examining and detecting disease and injury in the cattle, assisting with birth deliveries, assisting with administering medications and vaccinations, cleaning and maintain housing\ areas and repairing and building fence.\ 3. Fencing types include permanent barbed wire fencing as well as temporary electric fencing.\ 4. During the growing season, duties include irrigating with siphon tubes, central pivots, movable pod systems and wheel lines as well as general weed control by spraying, cutting and digging.\ 5. Operating basic farm equipment such as gators, UTVs pickups, tractors, skid steers, front end loaders and feed trucks and wagons.

Worker must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the job duties throughout the workday. Workers must work at a sustained, vigorous pace and make bona-fide efforts to work efficiently and consistently that are reasonable under the climatic and all other working conditions.\ Worker may never ride on agricultural equipment not designed for work related riding purposes or