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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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