Farm and agricultural worker

Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch Animals in Gila Bend, Arizona

This is an H-2A job order, which means the employer has already applied to hire workers from outside the United States for it.

Employer: Paloma Dairy
Where: Gila Bend, Arizona
Places: 6
Pay: $15.32 per hour
Visa: H-2A
Starts: 2026-09-01
Ends: 2027-06-30
Filed: 2026-07-30

What the work involves

We are a dairy in Gila Bend Arizona with two parallel parlors using 12 hour shifts. Calves are born onsite and shipped offsite until ready to produce milk. Job duties may include and are not limited to tasks such as: be able to handle working in high humidity, construct facilities, regulate conditions, tend to livestock by feeding, medicating, general care, grading, sorting, working, placing identification on, or relocating, work in extreme temperatures; ensure barn fans and misters are operational and maintaining temperature for cattle; adjust ventilation as necessary based on temperatures and weather conditions; maintain clean, sanitary farm areas by cleaning stalls, pens, and equipment with disinfectants, brushes, shovels, hoses, or pumps; handling manure by scraping, piling, and loading; covering/uncovering feed; distributing, additives, and medications in prescribed portions; clean and maintain farm facilities and equipment systems, including washing parlor walls/floors/pit, bulk tank, feeders, pails, sinks, and pipelines, as well as maintaining and repairing systems, feed troughs, and trucks; keeping records; receiving and moving cattle; providing day to day care for cows, heifers, calves, and yearlings; observing animals for injury, illness, and growth/weight gain; assisting with calving and weaning; ensuring orphan calves receive colostrum immediately after birth; feeding, watering, nursing assistance, vaccinating, medicating, castrating, and providing hay as needed; change and maintain correct teat dips depending on temps and moisture; hand or machine milking; sorting, segregating, and herding animals; identifying animals with RFID ear tags; performing reproduction related tasks such as timely breeding. Equipment such as but not limited to the following will be used/operated by the workers in conjunction with the duties being performed: pickups, cars, tractors.

How to apply

Apply directly with the employer named above. Workmerica is not an agency, takes no fee and is not involved in this hiring.

Open the original job order

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Seasonal Jobs.

What that comes to in a month

At forty hours a week, the rate in this filing works out at about $2,650 a month before tax. That is the standard full-time month of 173 hours; overtime, deductions and the cost of getting there are not in it.

How the work permit works in the United States

Employer-sponsored temporary or permanent labor certification. The employer files with the Department of Labor first. Which programme applies depends on the work and whether it is seasonal.

Published by U.S. Department of Labor, foreign labor certification