STOCK-PERSON

Position: Stock-person, full or part time

Location: Winona, Minnesota

Send the following to oneillfamilyfarm54@gmail.com :

  • Resume (maximum 1 page) or work history 

  • Work references (2-3) including: 

    • referencing person’s name, contact email & phone number, 

    • relationship to applicant, 

    • applicant’s position while working with referencing person

  • Brief statement of interest 

Job description:

We are looking for a full (40+ hours/wk) or part (25+ hours/wk) time stock-person to join our family farm. The ideal candidate can work well independently and with others, is honest, responsible, motivated, and cares about their work and our collective resources. 

Stock-person works closely with farm owners and other employees to:

  • Rotationally graze livestock

  • Supplementally feed livestock daily in winter and inclement weather

  • Assist with planned stock operations, including: scanning (pregnancy, back fat, loin depth), calving, lambing, shearing, weaning

  • Assess livestock health and herd behavior (sheep, beef cattle, goats)

  • Identify, communicate and treat disease as appropriate

Preferred skill set:

  • Maintaining and setting up permanent & portable electric fence

  • ATV use (transportation, livestock herding)

  • Operating tractors, trailers, skidloader, bale processors, and haying equipment

  • working (sometimes long) flexible hours outside, regardless of weather 

    • Can ergonomically lift 50 pounds

  • Wants to learn about sheep, cattle, and goat livestock raising, pasturing, herding, and doctoring

  • Keen observer of pasture health and animal behavior and health

  • Enjoys working with dogs (herding border collies & livestock guardians)

  • Can offer and receive constructive feedback 

Required qualifications and/or experience:

  • Positive attitude & enthusiasm

  • Valid driver’s license

  • Willingness to learn

  • Transparent, honest communicator

  • Cares about resource preservation for future generations:

    • soil-first agriculture

    • preserving biological resources

    • animal welfare 

  • Experience with sheep, beef cattle and/or goats

  • Ability to operate stick-shift vehicles, tractors, trailers, skid-loaders

  • Collaborative work ethic

  • Punctual, reliable, flexible, honest

  • Responsibility for actions

Compensation: DOE, commensurate with experience

Additional beneficial (NOT required) skills:

  • Fencing experience

  • Welding experience

  • Electric and mechanical machinery repair

  • Border collie herding dog training experience

Benefits can include:

  • Housing (3-bedroom house available)

  • Lamb and beef

  • Flexible time off (likely not a fixed weekly schedule as work can depend on weather and others’ schedules, often involving weekends)

  • Close relationship with employer & weekly meetings

  • Several public and private K-12 education options

  • Driftless region seasonality and beauty

PART-TIME FARMERS MARKET REPRESENTATIVE

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We stand on the lands of the Great Sioux Nation, Wahpeton, Sauk, and Meskwaki people. We’re committed to honoring these people who came before us and their sacred agricultural practices as stewards of the Earth. We practice gratitude for this place, soil regeneration, carbon sequestration, and sustaining people and our no-plan-B-planet in a perennial, never tilled, beyond organic prairie pasture ecosystem. We’ve been harnessing sun, water, milk, and grass into lamb, beef, and eggs as a family for twenty-five years and plan to for many more to come. Learn more here. Buy your taste, here, today!

Currently, packages are shipped on a per-order basis; these orders must be submitted via email to oneillfamilyfarm54@gmail.com. Please refer to our online store for availability and prices; shipping costs will be calculated per received order. Orders within the southeast corner of Minnesota can be ordered via our order forms and picked up at the Rochester Farmers Market (Saturdays) in Rochester, MN. If you are outside of SE MN, we can ship or deliver to our drop site in Bloomington, MN.