Winter Livestock Worker
GRIMES FARMS LLC
📍 Minden, NE · Kearney County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26292-308137
- 📞 Phone: +1 (402) 432-5124
- ✉️ Email: matthewgrms313@gmail.com
Employer instructions
Open Job Order, please contact Local State Employment office. The employment office will refer each applicant to Grimes Farms LLC. Grimes Farms LLC will conduct a full telephone interview with the applicant. The office hours are Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Central Standard time 402-432-5124. All employers must continue to be open to any qualified U.S worker regardless of race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, handicap, or citizenship. No strike requirements - The worksite does not currently have workers on strike or being locked out in the course of a labor dispute. Western Range Association and its rancher members maintain a strong commitment to providing a safe, efficient, and productive work environment. An employee's involvement with alcohol and drugs could be extremely dangerous to all employees and others, and disruptive to the workplace. Use, manufacture, distribution or possession of an illegal drug, or misuse of a prescription drug is cause for termination. Any person found to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs while working will be terminated. At the employers expense, all applicants may be required to complete pre-employment alcohol and drug testing. Failure to consent to requested testing, will result in disqualification of the applicant
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Winter Livestock Worker (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26292-308137
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Must have 3 months experience with 200 head of livestock. Employee will break ice for livestock in cold weather, haul water to livestock, moving snow, set up wind breaks for livestock, in poor winter weather conditions help provide feed and shelter to animals, keep fences clear of ice accumulation and snow drifting, assist in moving livestock due to adverse weather conditions or feed quality, maintaining equipment and supplies used for livestock care, provide supplemental feed and protein to animals grazing, transporting grain and feed. Western Range Association and its member ranches facilitate practices of good animal husbandry. Employees that are found abusing, neglecting or abandoning livestock entrusted to their care may be terminated for cause. If the negligent/abusive actions of an employee result in the loss/death of livestock/animals or cause harm to another person, the employee may be held accountable for these actions. The worker will live in the employer provided range housing. Said housing will be clean and in good repair at the time it is provided to the employee. The employee is responsible to maintain the housing unit in a reasonable level of cleanliness in order to avoid flies, mice or other vermin. The employee is responsible to alert the employer of damage to the housing unit within a reasonable amount of time. The employee may be held accountable for damage to the housing unit that is the result of negligence on the part of the employee (normal wear and tear excepted). ***Hours worked footnote: On call for up to 24 hours 7 days a week***
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 3 months |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 50 lb Drug test |
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 7:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. |
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| Paid | Other |
| Pay details | Employer shall provide housing and board in accordance with the rules and regulations of the federal government of the United States of America. Discretionary performance-based bonuses may be available. Payroll advances may be available. |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Minden, Ne) |
| Housing | One fixed site unit with the capacity of four. The total housing is four. The housing is available and sufficient to accommodate the workers being requested. Address to fixed site unit 1568 L Road, Minden, Nebraska, 68959 |
| Meals | Housing contains free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities that will enable the workers to prepare their own meals. The employer will furnish a vehicle for the employees own use to travel to and from the grocery store to purchase his or her own food. A drivers license is not required for the position; if the employee has a valid drivers license, he or she can drive themselves to the store. Such driving is not part of the employees work and will occur exclusively for their personal benefit and during their off-hours, at their sole discretion and not at the direction of the employer or for the benefit of the employer or any other employees. If the employee does not have a valid drivers license, the employer will transport them to the store, free of charge. |
| Daily transportation | Transportation is provided by the employer Passenger automobiles insured and registered in the State of Nebraska and operated under 29 CFR 500.104 with seating for two each is used to transport the worker(s) from the housing provided at no cost to the workers. 2004 GMC Canyon pickup 1993 Dodge Ram W250 pickup 2012 Chevy 1500 Silverado |
| Travel to the job | Transportation from point of recruitment to worksite and from the worksite back to the point of recruitment will be arranged and provided by Employer. Employer will reimburse worker for subsistence costs during travel to worksite no later than the end of the first pay period upon presentation of receipts and from the worksite at the end of the job based on rates established in the applicable regulations. |
| Pay deductions | Social Security, Federal and State Income Tax withholdings may be deducted from wages. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26292-308137 |
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| Official occupation | Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals (45-2093.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION |
| Posted | Oct 29, 2026 |