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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 “Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker”

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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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