Assistant Herdsman & Equipment Operator needed at Angus Seedstock & Row Crop Operation in Iowa

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Email

[email protected]

Location

Odebolt, IA

Job Type

Full Time, Year round

Salary

$40,000-60,000

Posted

August 22, 2026

Housing Offered?

Yes

Experience

2-5 yrs

Sponsoring Work Visas?

Maybe

How to Apply

Via Email

This is a Midwest farm – Angus Seedstock & Row Crop operation. Odebolt, Iowa
About half your year is calving, herd health, breeding protocols, and sale prep on a registered Angus herd. The other half is equipment – tillage, planting, spraying support, harvest, and shop work.
If running a tractor for weeks in the spring and fall isn’t something you want to do, this isn’t your job, and we’d rather you know that now. If you like both sides of the business, keep reading.

The Operation

We’re a registered Angus seedstock outfit. We develop bulls and females, sell them nationwide. We run a structured AI and ET program, host an annual production sale, and farm our own ground.
One owner, one hire. You’d work alongside him every day – no layer of management between you and the decisions.

Cattle work

Daily herd checks – catching sick ones early, treating, keeping records straight
Calving season: feeding, night checks, nursery care, etc.
Processing: tagging, vaccinating, weighing, sorting
Low-stress handling in the alley, on foot, and in the side-by-side
Heat detection, synchronization, and chute work for AI and ET
Sale prep, feeding, bedding, developing cattle, load-out day
Equipment and crop work
Tractors and implements for tillage, planting, spraying support, harvest
Grain cart and truck driving through harvest
Daily service: grease, filters, fluids, tires
Shop repairs – welding, hydraulics, and bearings. We’ll teach what you don’t know, but you need to be mechanically minded.
Year-round upkeep
Barbed wire and high-tensile fence, pasture rotation, tanks and winter water, and keeping the barns, yards, and shop in order.

What we’re looking for

Enough time around cattle and machinery that neither one is new to you – farm or ranch raised, or an animal science background with real practical time behind it.
Able to read cattle. You know something’s wrong before it’s obvious.
Mechanically capable enough to diagnose a breakdown in the field and either fix it or explain it clearly over the phone
Valid license and clean driving record. CDL is a plus, not a requirement.
Someone who works the same when nobody’s watching
Willing to work long hours during calving, planting, and harvest – and honest enough to admit the slow months are slow
You don’t need AI or ET experience – knowing how to AI is a bonus.

What you get

$40,000 – $60,000/year based on experience
House on the farm – 2 bed / 1.5 bath, attached garage
Beef in the freezer, paid time off, and flexibility in the slow months
Annual bonus once calving and sale season are behind us
If you’ve been running commercial cows and want to move into the seedstock side, this is how you get there. Those skills travel with you for the rest of your career.
A path to your own cattle. There’s potential to work into running cows of your own and selling them on our annual production sale.
A family operation that isn’t going anywhere. We want whoever takes this job to still be here in ten years.

Send a resume, or just a note about your background – either is fine. Include two references who can speak to your work, at least one from an ag employer.
Every applicant gets a response.