General Farm Ranch
Employer
15991 Bennie Peer Road (McKenzie County North Dakota)
Sidney, MT 59270
United States
Job description
The General Farm Ranch Hand position will be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of cattle and grain. Duties will include the following: check physical characteristics, observe general condition of livestock and apply the appropriate care, examine animals to detect illness/injury/disease, rate of weight gain to determine delivery time, assist in delivery and night calving, apply or administer medications/vaccines, mix feed/additives and feed/water livestock when not out to pasture; place mineral blocks, drive equipment, herd livestock to various pastures, sort cattle. Assist with branding; confine livestock in stalls, clean/disinfect livestock corrals/stalls/sheds, dock, castrate, brand, clip/tag and clamp livestock. Worker will be required to operate modern farm equipment for planting and harvesting of crops including harrow, swather combine and baler and ATV. Worker will be required to drive semi-truck loaded with grain from field to bed and elevator, hoist/stack bales of hay onto wagon/truck, repair, replace and build and repair fence , pick rocks, perform general cleanup of farm acreage. Worker may be asked to assist with spraying. Worker must be willing to perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision. The job entails working with farm animals and machinery, outdoors in all types of weather (extreme heat, wind and cold) and occasional exposure to herding hazards such as cattle stampedes, kicking/bucking horses, poisonous snakes and predators. Worker must crouch, bend, lift and carry items weighing up to 100 pounds. Drivers' License is required.
Special Requirements
Hours will vary during the year such as calving season and harvesting season. At times, especially during haying season which runs May - September, the worker will be asked to work 12 - 16 hours per day.