Farm and agricultural worker

Farmworker in Petersburg, Texas

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: Harmony Farms, Inc.
Where: Petersburg, Texas
Places: 1
Pay: $16.24 per hour
Visa: H-2A
Starts: 2026-12-02
Ends: 2027-03-27
Filed: 2026-10-05

What the work involves

We run stocker calves on wheat pasture. These animals usually arrive at the farm sometime in November, and they leave the farm in March. The animals generally weigh 400-500 pounds when they arrive and 750 -850 pounds when they leave. We fatten the livestock on wheat pastures and only do this once per year. We do not have animals on the farm the rest of the year. Job duties will include: drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals, examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain, feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies, herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures, inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences, mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions, shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food, care for animals, clean equipment or facilities. Building and/or removing temporary electric fences. Employer may provide pay increases for performance, longevity and/or experience at employer’s discretion. Employer may provide performance bonuses at the end of the contract at the employer’s discretion.

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 $2,810 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