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Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.