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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 “Broomcorn Thresher”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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