Farmworker: General (45-2093.00)

Work description

Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute fee to animals. Examine animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical characteristic, such as rate of weight gain. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions, Inspect, maintain and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. Move equipment or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, and/or pumps. Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks or other enclosures. May be required to separate/sort livestock according to size and weight. Workers may be required to apply ID tags. Attend to live farm, and ranch animals that may include cattle, horses and other equines. Duties may include feeding mixing feed, watering, herding, grazing, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Workers will also assist with the milking part of the operation. Cleans plows, combines, and tractors using scraper and broom. Stacks loose hay, using pitchfork or pitches hay into automatic bailing machine. Stacks bales of hay and loads them onto wagon or truck using a handbook. Workers must be able to work in a bent over position for long periods of time, clearing property, caring wire, posts, and hand tools long distances across rough terrain. Worker must be able to climb ladders and fence. Worker will use hand tools to maintain living area that is used during breeding and birthing process. Clear off farmland to increase planting acreage during spring planting season. Farm Equipment Operation: Workers may be required to operate tractors, trucks, and other farm equipment during daily operations, as an incidental activity. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, and equipment. Workers with proper licenses will use company vehicles to transport employers’ crops, tools and fellow workers. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination. EMPLOYER IS A SMOKE FREE EMPLOYER. SMOKING OR VAPING IS NOT PERMITTED EXCEPT IN DESIGNATED AREAS. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker if the employer reasonably finds the workers performance after the trial period to be unacceptable when there is no reason for not doing so During certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. Full Crop Commitment: This is regular work, 7 hours per day, Monday-Friday and 5 hours on Saturday for the full remainder of the period of employment. The worker agrees to work for assigned employer(s) whenever work is available during the full remaining period of employment even though work may be slack at times. The worker understands that if the worker quits or is terminated for cause prior to the end of the period of employment, the worker will not receive the 3/4 guarantee and will not receive certain transportation reimbursements. Excessive tardiness and/or absences will not be tolerated and will result in termination