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Beef Cattle Farmer

Employer

Future Farms

Date Posted

September 25, 2026

Languages

English
  • Location Innisfail, AB
  • Earnings $20.00 to $30.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 48 to 56 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Oct 09, 2026
Job Requirements

Employer

Future Farms

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
  • Hay farming
  • Livestock combination farming
  • Dusty
  • Hot
  • Noisy
  • Odours
  • Outdoors

Work setting

  • Rural area
  • Relocation costs not covered by employer
  • Willing to relocate

Tasks

  • Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
  • Develop and guide the behaviour of farm animals
  • Handling animals
  • Manage feed inventory activities
  • Monitor the calving process
  • Monitoring animal health
  • Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving
  • Prepare cattle for exhibition
  • Raise and breed livestock and poultry
  • Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
  • Perform general farm duties

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Feeding and watering system
  • Tractor
  • Truck

Security and safety

Driver's validity licence check

Transportation/travel information

  • Own vehicle
  • Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Attention to detail
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Large workload
  • Manual dexterity
  • Physically demanding
  • Tight deadlines
  • Work under pressure

Personal suitability

  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Values and ethics

Screening questions

  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?

Employment terms options

  • Early morning
  • Evening
  • Shift
  • Morning

Experience

5 years or more

Employment terms options

  • Night
  • To be determined
  • Day
  • Weekend
  • Overtime required

Green job

Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes

Other benefits

On-site housing options


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Beef Cattle Farmer is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Farmers and Farm Managers
DIRECTIVE

Interest in supervising and hiring farm workers; and in determining amounts and kinds of crops to be grown and livestock to be raised, and in purchasing farm machinery, livestock, seed, feed and other supplies

METHODICAL

Interest in co-ordinating information to plant, cultivate and harvest crops; and in raising and breeding livestock and poultry

OBJECTIVE

Interest in driving - operating and maintaining farm machinery, equipment and buildings

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