What are the responsibilities and job description for the General Farm Ranch position at Gordon Cattle Company?
The General Farm Ranch Hand position will be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of cattle and hay. Duties will include the following: Worker will be required to operate farm equipment including tractors, baler and swather for planting and harvesting hay; some irrigation will be required including operating and maintaining pivots; worker must be able to hoist/stack bales of hay onto wagon/truck, maintaining barbed wire fence, picking rocks, and performing general cleanup of farm acreage. Workers will be required to load/unload semi-trucks. Workers will spend time working with livestock and will be required to occasionally check physical characteristics, observe general condition of livestock and apply the appropriate care, examine animals to detect illness/injury/disease, may apply or administer medications/vaccines, mix feed/additives when not on range; place mineral blocks, drive equipment, herd livestock to various pastures, drive 4-wheeler to move cows; confine livestock in stalls, clean/disinfect livestock corrals/stalls/sheds, dock, castrate, brand, clip/tag and clamp livestock. 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 and cold including snowy, rainy, windy, dusty conditions) 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. Driving is required and a Drivers' License is required.
Salary : $18