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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”

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.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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