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Job Description

Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. May perform tasks, such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks, such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-2091.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,430.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 28,700 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Agricultural Equipment Operators”.

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Tasks for “Berry Picker Machine Operator”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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Rotary hoes
Forage wagons
Straw and chaff spreaders
Field rollers
Sprayer chassis
Grass drills
Cargo trucks
Seed scales
Skid sprayers
Feed grinders
Grain vacuums
Manure scrapers
Weed wipes
Sprayer booms
Peanut digger inverters
Seed dryers
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Peanut dump carts
Seed tenders
Row crop cultivators
Air drill seeders
Ditchers
Backhoes
Skid steer post hole diggers
Manure injection systems
Auger movers
Tomato harvesters
Mower conditioners
Portable sprayers
Subsoilers
Air seeders
Combine draper headers
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Fertilizer spreaders
Hay bale movers
Horizontal feed mixers
Track tractors
Combine cylinders
Combine grain headers
Subcompact tractors
Min-till planters
Seed vacuums
Manure augers
Swath turners
Silage bins
Flat-ended shovels
Grain wagons
Forage blowers
Field cultivators
Skid steer tree cutters
Min-till cultivators
Forage boxes
Manure separators
Tower grain dryers
Gravity wagons
Feed conveyors
Windrowers
Stump grinders
Peanut diggers
Wheel loaders
Telehandlers
Manure storage tanks
Threshers
Hay bale forks
Land rollers
Hay bale feeders
Garlic harvesters
Grain bin aeration fans
Hay bale stackers
Land levelers
Continuous flow grain dryers
Roller packers
Auger wagons
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Seed strippers
Land scrapers
Chisel plows
Forage tractors
Offset disks
Silage mills
Hay bale accumulators
Skid steer loaders
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Forklifts
Seed drills
Seed mixers
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
V hay rakes
Hay bale shredders
Seed hoppers
Skid steer hay bale spears
Coulter rippers
Granular applicators
Feed mixer wagons
Skid steer post drivers
Combine headers
Compost turners
Self-propelled sprayers
Coulter drills
Batch grain dryers
Post drivers
Hay bale trailers
All terrain vehicles ATV
Land planes
Crop dividers
Post hole diggers
Rotary hay rakes
Tandem disks
Hammermills
Hay balers
Header carriers
Combine header transports
Grain drills
Silage baggers
2-point sprayers
Fertilizer blenders
Seed conveyors
Hay bale conveyors
Nurse tanks
Grain augers
Peanut dryers
Rotary tillers
Peanut digger shakers
Power winches
Rock windrowers
Litter spreaders
Chisel disks
Skid steer rotary tillers
Seed bins
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Hay conditioners
Liquid storage tanks
Silo spreaders
Bedding hippers
Harrow baskets
Grain pumps
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
Utility vehicles
3-point sprayers
Coulter disks
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Bed shapers
Farm tractors
Plows
Forage harvesters
Dry bulk storage tanks
Hay bale spears
Windrow inverters
Silage wrappers
Crop lifters
Pasture renovators
Bucket elevators
Mist blowers
Manure chopper pumps
Peanut harvesters
Crop shredders
Air reels
Land finishers
Grass seeders
Hay tedders
Hay bale wrappers
Air carts
Manure spreaders
Compact tractors
Hay bale unrollers
Silage feeders
Hay bale loaders
Haybines
Chaff spreaders
Soybean combine harvesters
Lime spreaders
Shavings spreaders
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Grain heaters
Grain combines
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Hay bale compressors
Flotation sprayers
Skid steer rock grapples
Skid steer post pullers
Silage boxes
Min-till drills
Transfer augers
Silage distributors
Tractor guidance systems
Disk rippers
Hay bale elevators

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