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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”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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