Jobs at the farm

Work where the fish are raised, graded and loaded.

Anderson Minnow Farm is a working hatchery on US-70 just west of Lonoke. The people who run it every day are the ones who net the fish, grade them, load them and get the trucks out. Jamie Anderson has said some of the staff have been with the business 25 to 30 years, and the farm has been in the same family since 1949.

This page does not list openings, pay or benefits. The farm takes applications through a “Join our Team!” form on its store, and the office is the place to ask what is open right now.

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Two workers netting minnows at a grading tank on the farm
Grading tanks, Lonoke

The floor

Four stations a fish passes through.

  1. Hatchery

    An 11,000 square foot hatchery that can produce over a billion fry in a season. The work starts here, before a fish is ever sized or sold.

  2. Grading and netting

    Fish are graded by width and pulled from the tanks by net. All fish are graded by width, and the grade sets the counts.

  3. Loading

    Fish go onto the truck in custom-made buckets, lifted by forklifts that carry digital scales on the forks. The setup keeps stress on the fish low.

  4. The truck bay

    Trucks are loaded cleanly under a rainproof structure, ready for FedEx overnight and the contract haulers.

Ask first, or just apply

The office is open Monday to Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central.

Call 1-800-206-4666 and ask who is hiring, or send a note and say which part of the floor you want to work.

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