farm worker, general

Work site environment

• Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
• Corn farming
• Hay farming
• Other grain farming
• Outdoors
• Noisy
• Odours
• Dusty

Work setting

• Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Handling animals
• Livestock branding
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Harvest crops
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
• Perform general farm duties
• Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Farm truck
• Haying equipment
• Loader
• Manure spreader
• Seed drill
• Tractor
• Hand tools

Automated systems experience

• Storage and silage system

Area of specialization

• Beef cattle
• Agricultural crop service

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Personal suitability

• Team player